Of Tumultuous Travel, Tumbling Tummies, and Typical Times that are Anything But
Here in the States, this coming Sunday marks Mother's Day. (In perusing Wikipedia, I note that apparently several other nations celebrate their own versions of this holiday, despite the well-known fact that America invented mothers.) I was originally planning on doing something a bit special this week for Pyramid -- perhaps a themed article or two -- but I found myself wanting my own mother more than anything about 36 hours ago. That's when I got about as violently ill as I've ever gotten in the lead-up to the weekly Pyramid, and about as ill as I've been in the past 15 years or so. Frankly, when ingesting a tablespoon of apple juice makes one's intestinal track sound like a wooden roller coaster1 that's two missing nails away from a class-action lawsuit, it's not a good sign. (This also marked the first day of my week-long descent into bachelorhood as my wife and our son departed for Texas to visit her brother. Fun.) Anyway, while I'm not exactly better, I've at least recovered to the point where I can spend more than three minutes in my computer chair before needing to stagger off whimpering back to my bed.
Which is to say, "No theme issue for you." This is a shame on my end, for entirely selfish reasons. I've been thinking about my own mother recently, ever since she passed away a few weeks ago, on the first of April (a date I generally had positive feelings toward before then). It was no . . .
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Article publication date: May 9, 2008
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