Lost: King’s Cross

Well, better late than never, I suppose. And yes, there are spoilers for both the LOST finale and Harry Potter. I did watch the LOST finale on Sunday night. In retrospect it was quite possibly the worst way to spend one’s 40th birthday–all ruminating about death and loss and The Meaning Of It All. And [...]

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Still…Where Did The Lighter Fluid Come From?

Oh my gosh. This might go down in history as one of my weirdest weeks ever. Even more…what’s so weird about it is that it’s only a quarter-bubble off plumb. It’s not weird like it would be if something (God forbid) blew up or burned down. It’s just weird because the rhythm of my days [...]

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Because I Am Not Racist.

“Gob” was sort of one of those names that fell in our lap. We first said it as a joke and then realised that it was just the right name. It just…fit. One of the other names I’d thought of, fleetingly was “LLUA”. We’d pronounce it ‘lew-uh’. I mentally rejected it because it sounds feminine [...]

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Wherein I Fisk Sharon Cobb

Okay. I was going to leave this alone. But this bears repeating and a bit of explanation on my part. Please be aware that there is foul language which I will not censor in any way. The bolded parts are written by Sharon Cobb. My response is below them.

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Which Post Is This

I have a few different posts I want to write, but I can’t settle on any of them. Should I write about Gob and his mysterious origins, hacking cough and funny personality? Should I write about the state of the Church in America? Should I write about how certain people turn up time and again [...]

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Oh, To Be A Goldfish!

Of all the things I’ve lost over the years, I used to miss my eidetic memory the most. I had a memory that could play back conversations, instructions and classroom lectures as flawlessly as any video camera. I had a memory for text that used to be a parlour trick in literature classes. (“It says [...]

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Because We Hate To Be Left Out

A few months ago my sister-in-law called my husband at work with some good news. They were adopting their fourth child, an African-American girl named Naomi. They’ve already adopted three other children, two of whom are also whatever the correct term for darker-skinned- than- caucasian is today. About a month ago my cousin Matt and [...]

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Waterlogged Resume’s

That’s an accent-mark, not an apostrophe. My Option-E key combo doesn’t work on WordPress title bars, apparently. I probably shouldn’t write this post. Because it touches on why I snapped over at Aunt B.’s last week. And clearly, once you read this, you’ll see that I’m far from done with the snappishness. Blame the post-traumatic [...]

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LOST: Quick! Check The Writers For Red String Bracelets!

Well, we’ve had Roman Catholicism. Hinduism. Garden Variety Generic Mysticism. Alcoholism. We’ve dabbled in Neuroscience, Quantum Physics, Introduction to Philosophy. And it all comes down to this…. [Warning: This will exceed my self-imposed limit of 500 words. Because it has to. Read at your own risk. I will try to keep it as brief as [...]

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Let’s Talk About Love

There is a Mother’s Day Underground, comprised mostly of infertile and uncoupled/childless women, that survives the first couple of weeks in May on courage, hiding at home and sending emails. A few of us also blog. One of my similarly affected sisters sent a link to writer Anne Lamott’s very prescient piece in Salon. Although [...]

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