by Eileen | Sep 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
Recently I promised readers big and small a story about getting trapped in the elevator in my building. As the elevator is just barely automatic, the outer door must be shut and the inner gate must be closed in order for the elevator to move. There’s a system of...
by Eileen | Sep 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Every finger has a name in English. There’s the thumb, the pointer, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger or (my favorite) pinky. As chidren, though we are encouraged not to point directly at people, we are taught to point at things (for example, a word...
by Eileen | Aug 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
Are you out of your gourd? This was the question my father would pose when he saw you doing something completely, obviously, utterly and undeniably crazy. I never remember what I was doing at the time, but how could you forget a question like that? My gourd? The dried...
by Eileen | Aug 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
When I was a child, and a dogged reader of Highlights magazine (or maybe it was World, the mini National Geographic), there were occasional articles on “decorating your earthquake shoes” or some such. The idea was for the kids living near the San Andreas...
by Eileen | Aug 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
In Spanish when you say you have “mixed feelings” about something, you have “sentimientos encontrados,” which, when I parse the words, I end up with feelings that run into each other on the street. You know, like that Reese’s Peanut...
by Eileen | Aug 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
Disclaimer: I know it’s not yet spring. But it’s beginning to look alot that way, so I declare it the beginning of bearshapedsphere’s spring.I have a long history of hating spring, and spring-like weather. Crappy things tended to abound in the spring...
