Feel like summer yet where you live? We’ve got Blackberry Winter in
Upstate New York. I wonder if Alice Frampton is enjoying her first Spring
in Alaska.
overcast morning–
ripe blackberries
out of reach
morning milking
the white
of mother’s breast
snow-covered hives
miles to go
for groceries
“snow-covered hives” from frogpond (XXVIII: 2, 2005)
“overcast morning” from New Resonance 3: Emerging Voices
“morning milking” from New Resonance 3; Haiku Canada Newsletter XVI:3
potluck
Risky Practices: Just in time for your Memorial Day weekend trip,
our favorite RiskProf points to a GMAC study suggesting 20 million
Americans “lack basic knowledge of rules of the road and safe automobile
operation.” Of course, the scariest part is that we all knew that. I was
a bit surprised that drivers 18-24 were more likely to fail a written
driving test than drivers 55-64 (who last took the test thirty to fifty
years ago).
Spam-Smug No More: I’ve always wondered what others are
doing so wrong that they keep complaining about email In Boxes filled with spam.
I figured my email hygienne must simply be better than most, as I only got one or
two spam messages a month for years now. Well, the past few weeks, every hapless
Nigerian, every phony PayPal phisher, and every good-newsy Lottery official on the
planet, has written to me several times a day. It is really annoying!