from the journal
"The dog days of summer, when the leaves hang full and heavy over the lane, when eye glasses ride sweat and boredom down your nose and the droning baseball voices compete with lawnmowers in the distance, when thunder rolls in off the prairie and sneaks off with the passions of small-town families, when tales of violence in the cities seems more malevolent and the nights are nothing if not oppressive .... " 4/16/06
