Augustine's Confessions

 If I'm being politically incorrect, so be it, but I enjoy seeing men at work. Maybe it's one of my old lady things. I don't remember this being a particular pleasure for me when I was younge...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2021/11/im-being-politically-incorrect-so-be-it.html

A Situation Too few truck drivers—80,000 too few means that my stuff is elsewhere in America. Movers aren't moving. "Goods" they call my pile. Apt. Clothes, bowls, bone china coffee mug...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2021/10/a-situation-too-few-truck-drivers80000.html

  I live in Tucson now and I'm happy.   http://www.thelinnetswings.net/ddNCPindex.php

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r My family in Buffalo, N.Y. visiting my cousin, Alan, and his parents. That's Mom, Ricky, me, and Peter, with Robert, the tall teenager, in the back. Two Weeks and Three Days Later Ah, Pet...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2018/08/r-my-family-in-buffalo-n.html

Strength & Luck        There’s no food in Ireland for Patrick Kennedy. He slogs with the other starving over the wintry road to Kingston port, hands the man his bit of coin earned...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2018/01/this-is-in-my-book-to-see-whos-there-im.html

Lucien Pissaro, 1916 Time Change in Florida #2 Sapped, yes. But not finished. Not yet. So what if I mostly live in my head? Who says I have to be out running around improving body in...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2017/12/new-poem-and-one-from-my-book-to-see.html

I’d laugh, cry, splutter with confusion or outrage. I’d probably say “Duh” a lot, grow pale, flush, and wink at the viewers. I’d furrow my eyebrows, raise one or both, an...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2017/10/i-would-make-worst-cable-news.html

Maybe we should split up. Separate for good. I think it would be for good, you know? You can believe what you want, do what you want, spend your money your own way and I can do the same. We ...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2017/10/october-4-2017.html

Simply put: my second book, To See Who’s There is available for sale! It’s on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/See-Whos-There-Nonnie-Augustine/dp/1545137943/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2017/08/simplyputmy-second-book-to-see-whos.html

Pierre Bonnard Conversation between Friends over a Cup or Two of Earl Grey Tea Carolina missed her mother intensely in the first weeks after the event. Joanna had died twelve years before, ...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2017/08/pierre-bonnard-page-margin-0.html

Martin Johnson Heade, Magnolias on Gold Cloth, 1880-90 ARROGANT MAGNOLIA, the first to open all, poised ten feet above our fuss. As far as she’s concerned … well, she’s not, is she...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2017/07/in-my-book-to-see-whos-there-it-will-be.html

Archy and Cracy This post is my lesson to me for the week and maybe it will be handy for you. I’ve been trying to keep straight those   -archy and -cracy words. (I didn’t include monarch...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2017/06/archy-and-crac.html

“Their first fight was over school lunches. Free school lunches. She taught Kindergarten in a public special ed center for emotionally disturbed children. The 100 students were roughly 60% ...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2017/05/talking-about-friend-over-cup-or-two-of.html

 Landscape, Corfu 1909, John Singer Sargent April Notes After my bath Saturday morning, I checked cable news to make sure we hadn’t gone to war with North Korea. I’d never done ...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2017/04/corfu-1909-john-singer-sargent-96.html

Robert Rauschenberg Bloody Hell I feel wounded. As if he is throwing darts and the board is my long life. I was one of those kids who referred to “back when I was a kid” when I was twe...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2017/02/robert-rauschenberg-96-normal-0-false.html

Strength & Luck          There’s no food in Ireland for Patrick Kennedy. He slogs with the other starving over the wintry road to Kingston port, hands the man his bit of coin ear...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2017/02/my-dads-irish-side.html

As if to ask if I'm okay, as if to ask aren't we the same two on this wet December morning as ever, as yesterday, a month ago even, she shoots me a look as I stand by the bed, then...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2016/12/political-poem.html

Lavender, a Liberal Betty, batty from hormones, in a fanciful fit, named her daughter Lavender. Husband Don winced. Brothers Donald, John, Billy, and Tom  were puzzled and pleased ...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2016/11/lavender-liberal.html

We Never Left Pablo Picasso's Guernica Above our bellies we are beautiful women with luscious breasts. Where there is skin, believe me, it is flawless, irresistible. Most of us have long h...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2016/10/i-wrote-this-morning-after-second.html

I can’t do this anymore and I don’t mind. I'm as old as I feel and as young as I feel. How I feel changes from moment to moment and it has always been that way for me, for you, for Bloss...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2016/08/i-cantdo-this-anymore-and-i-dont-mind.html

July 15 On Monday I wrote on Facebook that I voted for a peaceful week. Last night, along with shock, worry. How did all those thousands of people get home? Where were their cars? Pa...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2016/07/july-15-on-monday-i-wrote-on-facebook.html

I never did post a blog in May, although  I intended to. So right off the June bat, here are two short fictions for the book I’m working on when I’m not working on the other book because so...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2016/06/i-never-did-post-blog-in-mayalthough-i.html

Boulevard Montmartre, Camille Pissaro, 1897 WEDNESDAY LATE, FRIDAY EARLY In Paris cartoonists were murdered today. Soldiers of the pen and ink drawing, black and white or multi? Mufti...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2016/04/poem-from-2015-week-of-first-terrorist.html

This morning I logged on to the Oxford Online Dictionary to check the definition of “marketing” because I thought I might write about Donald Trump again and I saw that the top five trend...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2016/03/march-17-2016.html

I have written a Trump speech that I believe would do for any occasion in any state and is equally useful for TV interviews. I’m sure you could write one, too, because we have been and con...

https://augustinesconfessions.blogspot.com/2016/02/writing-trump-and-then-toni-morrison.html