Tag Archives: Conversations

Button, Button

Posted on 11 October 2015 by Isabel Gibson

Not entirely random thoughts generated by a trainee cashier’s button, but close enough. Continue reading →

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Electrical Failure, Logical Failure, and Political Discourse

Posted on 28 June 2015 by Isabel Gibson

We now join the conversation in progress . . . Engineer (casually): “It’s a condition called thermal runaway.” Editor (wide-eye-ed-ly): “It melted?” Engineer (indignantly): “No, we unplugged it before it melted. We’re not idiots.” While the Editor considers the evidence … Continue reading →

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A Conversation with Tammy Wynette

Posted on 21 June 2015 by Isabel Gibson

Miss Wynette? Come in please. I’m the new lyrics editor here at Epic Studios. I have a few questions about your latest song. If it’s all right with you, I think we should just go through it together, line by … Continue reading →

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Was It Something I Said?

Posted on 14 June 2015 by Isabel Gibson

“I’ll never forget what you said.” Yikes! It’s been several years since we worked together. Exactly what “I-meant-it-to-be-funny-but-it-came-out-awful” thing had I said? My face goes still, but the small furry creature in my head (Lab rat? Gerbil? Please, please, don’t … Continue reading →

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Did Hamlet Shop, Do You Suppose?

Posted on 29 March 2015 by Isabel Gibson

For years, I couldn’t walk into an antiques store without coming home with some little thing I never knew I always wanted. Ages change, and stages with them. Continue reading →

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To Boldly Go

Posted on 15 March 2015 by Isabel Gibson

“That’ll be three fifty, ma’am.” I hand over a scruffy five-dollar bill for my bag of milk-chocolate mini bars. “Make it so.” The convenience-store attendant’s head snaps up. “Did you just say, ‘Make it so’?”

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Say What?

Posted on 18 January 2015 by Isabel Gibson

And we’re coming up on the county symmetry, on the left. As we boogie down the highway, our guide is narrating notable bits in our surroundings, as usual, and I am listening oh so carefully, also as usual. OK, my … Continue reading →

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What We Got Here

Posted on 11 January 2015 by Isabel Gibson

What we got here”¦is a failure to communicate. Captain, Road Prison 36 in Cool Hand Luke Another in a set of reflections on our recent trip to New Zealand and Australia. We have lots of kinds of coffee. He shouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Devoutly To be Wish’d

Posted on 29 June 2014 by Isabel Gibson

Dealing with strangers on the phone elicits an array of non-reactions and helpful reactions (Yay!) and suspicious, hostile, downright irritating reactions (Boo!).   All that information is on the website. Ouch. It’s not the words, it’s the tone. Biting. Impatient. … Continue reading →

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