Quail new year
Atop a silver castle, his plumage ordered, bedecked, he sports a brick-red crew cut and keeps his beak Roman and circumspect. Under his crusty castle, my body hunched at best, I long for a mate that’s...
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by cheri sabraw For twenty years I have told the story about what a sharp-shooter my father Hugh was. Why, as the family lore and legend go, while in the military at White Sands Proving Ground, New...
View ArticleJessica Mitford: Here I come!
by cheri I’ve decided to rescue my mother and father’s ashes from their joint grave at the Chapel of the Chimes cemetery in Hayward, California. How to do this, I am not sure. And I suppose I ought...
View ArticleMy friends, the Clydes (again)
by cheri I’m not sure when my love affair with horses began. I know they were the subject of most of my childhood scribblings, as well as role models for my cantering around the school playground,...
View ArticleConformity be gone!
by cheri sabraw Behind a zebra’s pattern of stripes and curves and slants, Lie fundamental questions that trigger gripes and nerves and rants. We look somewhat alike, with tails and ears and eyes, We...
View ArticleHigh on a hill stood a lonely goatherd…
by cheri For most of my life, my body has not only cooperated with me in my explorations through the labyrinth of human existence, it has also allowed me the confidence to navigate this maze...
View ArticleThe ‘Young-old’ are going to lunch in November
by cheri One of my old friends invited me to lunch sometime in the next several weeks. I say “old” because we have known each other for 35 years and because she just turned 70. According to AARP, we...
View ArticleResearch the old-fashioned way
by cheri block, Mrs. Sabraw, Cherylann B. Sabraw, My dear friend Richard in far-off England sent me a Boris Johnson solution for peace in the Middle East in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of...
View ArticlePhobia Schmobia
by Dinah, the Labrador Hello, Cheri’s readership ( all ten of you)! In Cheri’s composing, anytime she mentions my name, I have asked her in no uncertain terms ( I do this by repeatedly putting my paw...
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by cheri Cambria coastline I’m taking a break from trying to dress up my new “garage” kitchen, which the Honorable Honor and I are now sharing with a yellow Labrador, her hairy and stinky bed, the...
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