by Lavinia Plonka | Dec 26, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy
I recently traveled to Vancouver with my sister Liz. As I was walking through Minneapolis St. Paul airport, I passed my old high school classmate, Mary. Except it wasn’t really Mary. After all, this young woman was about 18 years old, and Mary, well, Mary had...
by Lavinia Plonka | Dec 18, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
My husband Ron always complains about the English language. He was born in New Jersey, so maybe that complicated his relationship to language in general, since New Jersey’s favorite choices of adjectives in most conversations are not supposed to be part of polite...
by Lavinia Plonka | Dec 11, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy
“We almost never think of the present, and when we do, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future.” Pascal When I lived in NJ, there was a new age gift store with a sign outside proclaiming, “Remember the precious present,” cleverly being...
by Lavinia Plonka | Oct 21, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
I know better as I balance precariously on the log buried under the honeysuckle and rambling rose. But the really good blackberries will be just outside my reach if I remain on the lawn. I can balance, I’m a dancer. I’m a martial artist – sure footed and in touch with...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 11, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
“If music be the food of love, play on.” Shakespeare – Twelfth Night “Remember, as the dodo said Feed your head! Feed your head! Grace Slick I wake up in the morning and lie in bed, mentally surveying the contents of my refrigerator. The meal possibilities of the...
by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 23, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
The wheel is turning and you can’t slow down You can’t let go and you can’t hold on You can’t go back and you can’t stand still If the thunder don’t get you then the lightning will Jerry Garcia The other night, there was a power...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jun 17, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy
I was eating breakfast, looking out my window at the familiar landscape of my backyard. Something had changed. I felt like a kid, looking at Highlights Magazine, trying to find what “doesn’t fit in”, the hidden picture, the mystery image. My vista was disturbed, but...
by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 27, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy
“The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.” (Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy, 1963) When you walk through the Northwest Airlines...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 8, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
Everyone’s a little bit racist Sometimes. Doesn’t mean we go Around committing hate crimes. Look around and you will find No one’s really color blind. Maybe it’s a fact We all should face Everyone makes judgements Based on race. -From the...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 31, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
“Of all the things in life I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.” Mark Twain “I don’t mind the voices in my head. I just wish they’d reach consensus.” Asheville Bumper Sticker I stand alone in the kitchen carrying on a lively conversation with myself. “Hmmm, I think...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 18, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy
It’s the end of the world as we know it. It’s the end of the world as we know it. It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. ...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 8, 2012 | Humor/CosmiComedy |
Last spring, I went on a three week trip to Europe. Or at least I think I did. In the film Total Recall, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, Arnold Schwarzenegger experiences a virtual vacation on Mars that turns into a nightmare when he discovers the chip up his...
