let's start over, i missed my cue

soon, i'm off again to the bookstore. being there last night was so relaxing, just reading and not really caring what time it was for once, constantly checking the clock, worried that i'll get too involved in my book i'll miss this or that meeting. i'm hoping to recapture the magic today, but i have a feeling that won't happen. things are fleeting, that's true bob. i have that same feeling sometimes.

i'm reading a good book about a country doctor from ohio that treats mainly amish patients. it's like the best parts of little house on the prairie/in the big woods, you know, the parts where pa doesn't have any nails so he has to make wooden pegs? i loved those parts. it's kind of like that, and just in short story form, almost. what i'm saying is, i'm glad i borrowed it. i actually think it might be mine. yesterday i bought a book about lucrezia borgia, "the most notorious woman of the Renaissance." i think my new year's resolution is so far being attacked with vigor, at least for now.

there have been two games of scrabble played. in one of those games, collates spelled b-i-n-g-o. i won't let the cat out of the bag and tell you if michele or i got it.

another observation about iowa: they chop everything up and put in in salads. the cucumbers? chopped. the tomatoes? chopped. the roasted red peppers? chizzy-chopped. all over the place.

let's not lie: the roasted red peppers can be found, to the best of my knowledge, in only one place. to no one's surprise, i'm going back there tonight.

tomorrow i'm going to chicago. whew. it'll be nice to be somewhere else for a change, i'll tell you what. if you think ohio is a hick state to live in, you should take yourself a little trip out here to the i to the o-wa. there are some things nice about it, though. don't get me wrong. got that? don't.

i think a walk down michigan avenue will clear things right up.