The Tumbleweeds

I had several random thoughts today, which would be better suited to Twitter. Except I can’t be bothered to open my Twitter account. I miss the friends who have migrated over that way, but when I try to read it I get anxiety attacks. You can’t avoid politics on Twitter, really. But I need somewhere [...]

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Any Wednesday

It’s been so long since I’ve written anything other than emails that I’m not quite sure if I still can write. Part of me misses writing the way a new vegetarian misses well-cooked meat dishes. I miss the flavour, the sense of fullness, the memory of the way my life was when I did that [...]

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Eat Pray Love–Living Real In Tennessee

I never did read this book, as I am instantly suspect of any book with “pray” or “prayer” in the title that is also on the New York Times best-seller list. Prayer is too personal and mystical to be a commodity. I just now watched the trailer for the Julia Roberts-starring film because it was [...]

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Light Syrup

My parents came to dinner this week. This is no small feat, considering that it is a seven-hour drive between our houses. I marvel often at how perfect my life is–but perfect in an off-center kind of way. As the four of us sat around my dining room table and enjoyed good beef, asparagus and [...]

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Let’s Talk

Last Friday I watched the Twilight movies with a group of friends. I’ve tried now twice (unsuccessfully) to read the books, but since so many of my friends are so deeply enchanted by these stories I felt I should have a passing knowledge of them. During our video party last week I finally put my [...]

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Helping The Fat People

I’ve had The Help lingering on my Kindle for a few weeks now, and finally decided to dive into it this morning, as I was growing very tired of the stilted language in Ben Hur. (That’s a post for another time, and one I need to write…about my relationship to General Lew Wallace and the [...]

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Aren’t You Happy For Us?

Someone I know very well has gone and done a stupid thing. It’s the latest in a long line of stupid things this person has done, stretching like a sticky taffy of wrongness across the last twenty years, picking up the dirt and lint of consequences. Now, as a professed libertarian, I generally don’t care [...]

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