Barbara J. HambyAuthor & Poet |
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ProjectsEarly this week I noticed how many unfinished projects I have going. I started in on a few of them. So far, I completed the index of all the poems that aren’t in my computers. I also finished packing my evacuation suitcase. So, where to go from here? I’m not sure I have the energy or courage to tackle sorting… click here to continue 0 Comment(s) about this entry. | Permalink August, 13th, 2011 Tiny DwellingsThis morning I read an article, with pictures, about very small houses. Some were smaller than the average living room. Over the last few years I’ve heard about a lot of these places occupied by people who are interested in limiting their consumption and living economically. After sixty years or so of homemaking, I was more than ready for… click here to continue 0 Comment(s) about this entry. | Permalink August, 11th, 2011 A Ripping Good TimeSaturday a friend called and invited me to go with her to see a musical for which she had two free tickets. Ripper, based on the Jack the Ripper story, was performed by the Broadway Rose Theater Company at Tigard High School, which is very close to where I live. The music, the costumes, and especially the sets were all… click here to continue 0 Comment(s) about this entry. | Permalink August, 10th, 2011 Virtual LifeI’m reading a book titled, The Children of Men, by P.D. James, that supposedly takes place in the year 2021. It’s the author’s projection of what life could be like in that future year. In part, it reminds me of a poem I wrote in 1997 that predicts some of the same possibilities, but not nailed down to a definite… click here to continue 0 Comment(s) about this entry. | Permalink August, 08th, 2011 Nothing ChangesThe other day, while indexing poems, I ran across one I wrote in 1992 about the starving children of Somalia. I had traveled to Washington, D.C. sometime before and saw pictures of those children hanging on the walls of the United Nations Building. Now, nearly twenty years later, we are again hearing about starvation in Somalia.
0 Comment(s) about this entry. | Permalink August, 04th, 2011 WonderingsShouldn’t there be some sort of award for a woman who’s been helping hamburger for more than sixty years, but who hasn’t resorted to Hamburger Helper? These days I mostly use ground turkey, rather than ground beef or pork, but I’ve made many meals with all of them. Last week when the hullabaloo was going on about raising the debt… click here to continue 0 Comment(s) about this entry. | Permalink August, 02nd, 2011 Present StatusI’m enjoying life in my tiny apartment, in charge of my own time and activities—as much as anyone can be who lives in a country with periodic terrorist threats and a relatively ineffective government—at least the legislative branch. It’s not the country I lived in, or thought I lived in, when I was young. I may have been deluded by… click here to continue 0 Comment(s) about this entry. | Permalink July, 31st, 2011 |