Pinocchio - the later years

Like many child stars, Pinocchio had a hard time adjusting to reality. As it turned out, being "real" was not a marketable job skill - not like, say, being a stringless puppet. Desperate, he took matters into his own hands, undergoing experimental surgery in Mexico to return to his natural state. The surgery worked, but by then the world's attention had turned to automatons. His life in splinters, he took to freebasing varnish. An autopsy, performed by a noted tree surgeon, placed his age at 37, although his rings showed signs of termites and the advanced dry rot of a much older tree. He was made into a pine box and buried in a private ceremony attended by a cricket, and several smoking donkeys in topcoats and short-pants.

The good stuff:

Pot luck at the Kerouac House

A good yarn

A nice sweater made from good yarn

Apples and peanut butter

Barnstorming hawks

Woodpeckers at the window

Pajama weekends

Community

Linear parks

Writer talk