Earlier this week a friend e-mailed me with the news that Dorival Caymmi died recently.  "He was a great Brazilian songwriter and singer," he writes.  "The Grandfather of Bossa Nova."  You know what Bossa Nova is if you can hum the tune to "The Girl from Ipanema".  You’ve probably heard the famous Getz/Gilberto recording or […]

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Houston-Area Brain Injury Online:
HABI-Online.org

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is famous.

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Henry Riojas owns a salsa business in Houston.  (I’m sure he’d like me to tell you that he also sells tamales, seasoning mixes, and addicting queso.  I’m also sure he’d like me to tell you that his products are available at retailers around the state and online.)  When Henry isn’t making and delivering salsa, he’s […]

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The co-op was mentioned in the Houston Chronicle this week.  It was a nice-enough article, although the author didn’t give enough credit to the reasons I shop there. 
Everyone at the co-op is so friendly that I’d drop by even if I didn’t buy vegetables.  Before I had little people pulling on my apron strings, […]

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One more dose of Floyd Skloot before I have to take the book back to the library: 
One way of spinning this is to say that my daily experience is often spontaneous and exciting.  Not fragmented and intimidating, but unpredictable, continuously new.  I may lose track of things, or of myself in space, my line […]

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David woke up with a fever last night, and is sick in the same way he was sick last week:  fever, with no other apparent symptoms.
I can’t think what is causing this.  The Evil Eye, maybe?  Who gave my pretty baby the Evil Eye?  I need to get myself an egg and bowl, I think. […]

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