my presence in Dallas

I had a bit of family business which required my presence in Dallas yesterday. In fact, it required a lawyer, too, and she was willing to drive with me up to Dallas. (Aquarius lawyer, just for the records.) And my Sister was winging in, and it was like a night at, like a night in, my presence in Dallas

Tofu Hot-dogs

There’s a local grocer [chain] who tried a new approach to the supermarket concept and called it “Central Market.” A supermarket and grocery store for the new millennium, perchance? With the latest one opening, just about all my friends have trooped through the new store’s aisles and marveled at the selection, the prices, the brands, Tofu Hot-dogs

I might never deposit this check

Monday deteriorated into a day when I knew I would get nothing truly useful done. I did what I do best, after answering the morning mail bag, I went for a long hike around the lake. I tucked all my hair up underneath my hat, slammed down some aviator shades, and disappeared down the hike I might never deposit this check

Joe Fish, the part time clerk said

Movie time interrupted the normal update of the weekly scopes, and everything went up a little early. Next weekend is a holiday, and who knows how that will affect the scopes. Got a busy week coming up because there’s an overnight to Dallas for family business, a strictly leisure trip out west, and a few Joe Fish, the part time clerk said

Saturn – Jupiter conjunction

It happened in the years of 332 and 333 AD, 392, 411, 452, 511, (in the century of 1000, it was in both Capricorn and Aries), 1186, 1246, 1306, (in the late 1600s and 1700s it was exclusively in the fire signs), and it didn’t happen in Libra again until 1980 and 1981. I was Saturn – Jupiter conjunction

Amy’s Ice Cream and Ruta Maya coffee

I had a near perfect afternoon in paradise on Friday. I’d call it perfect, but I’m not sure that everyone would agree with my definition of temperatures under a hundred degrees, humidity nearly the same, alternately broiling sun and scudding low clouds, being footloose in East Austin during the day, or my definition of the Amy’s Ice Cream and Ruta Maya coffee

Across the alley from the Alamo

I was ruminating on the return trip from Magnolia, one more time… about a year ago, I was doing exactly the same thing, walking in the same neighborhood, probably on the same street, heading up to Magnolia for a reading, and it’s all the same. A Thursday afternoon in late May. Some things haven’t changed Across the alley from the Alamo