Spitball Army

Heading north on 22nd Street toward University Blvd.

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Mid-afternoon lunch accessories on the V. Richards patio.

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Southbound on Interstate 5, on the way to Reunion Event #1 in San Diego.

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We were having an unseasonably warm, if slightly wet, day in Alabama, and Ben was wrapped in layers, as if he had prepared for the worst or, at least, a deer hunt.

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If cat Barbara could have ever been named after a particular person, though, her namesake would most likely have been my first grade teacher, SAM (our acronym for Sister Augustine Mary, who later changed her name back to Sister Barbara Mason), who telephoned me on my birthday one year and played “Las Mañanitas” on her trumpet.

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Temporary impact? Possibly. But you can bet that the non-freezers in the station that day thought about the experience for days or, at least, hours afterward.

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Thirty minutes before this picture was taken, it was all “rabbit food,” as my oldest sister used to call it.

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Am strangely tired, and would dearly like to spend the night in my own bed, nice as that feather bed at the Charles was.

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Man, that was a nice long 4th of July weekend, wasn’t it? I don’t know about you, but I made sure to fit in some time for barbecue, a terrific movie , a few swims, a chilled bike ride with no automotive interruptions, a couple extra hours of sleep.

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Ed Harcourt will be performing on The Tonight Show (hosted by Taylor Hicks’ uncle, Jay Leno) this evening! Word from the NBC website states that Harcourt will be playing a song from his amazing ”new” album The Beautiful Lie, which actually was released in 2006…it just took the United States record industry two years to get it out here.

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