In the News

I had forgotten how the national media loves stories that include bad things happening to ordinary people as they go about their ordinary business, and I suppose that a Washington dateline would make the story especially attractive.

They really are completely ordinary people, the victims. There was a message on a Yahoo group I'm on from a person who says that the victim in Virginia, the one who survived, is a friend, and that she's not in very good shape.

Meanwhile the sky is clear and there's football on teevee, just like any other autumn Sunday. I had eggs and toast for breakfast and decided to use my antique eggbeater instead of a fork. That's right, I like my breakfast eggs scrambled.

Amelia is sitting on her shelf. Marilyn is curled up on her blanket and Hecate is on the back porch. Today is a perfectly ordinary day.

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