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If you have ovaries you should read this (spoiler: it’s not about cancer)
Have some ovaries? Or maybe even just one ovary? Or maybe you used to have ovaries? Whatever. My point is that female types should read the article below. (Psst … It’s nice for men, too. So look what I just did … I spent so much time writing needlessly about ovaries. Happens to the best…
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To all the recovering alcoholics and drug addicts: Thank you
This article popped up on the sidebar of a news article about Phillip Seymour Hoffman. It’s by Russell Brand, whom I’ve always thought is incredibly articulate and hilarious. (No comment on the Katy Perry thing.) Brand is also a recovering drug addict. In this article, he talks about life after getting clean. Having dated an alcoholic for…
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Why I don’t care if you like me
So here’s the thing about me: I really don’t care if you like me. I actually really and truly don’t. It’s not that I don’t want you to like to me. I actually want to be liked. I want you to think I’m friendly and helpful and funny and occasionally smart and mostly honest and…
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What else can go right? My trick for not wallowing in despair
Complaining can be an art form, doncha think? I really appreciate a well-worded kvetch. But it can also be dangerous if you act like it’s your second job. Hippie Trish wants to tell you to KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF. I was thinking that this morning, as I read yet another excellent post from Ralph Marston,…
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Seasons of love … and writing
Birds and flowers of the four seasons, part of the paintings on room partitions in the abbot’s quarters (hōjō) of Jukō-in of Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Japan. Ink on paper. This picture shows four of 16 panels on fusuma (sliding doors) in the in the ritual room. The paintings have been designated as National Treasure of Japan…
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The lonely, lonely storm … and the shoe department
Yesterday I drove away from the warm house where my snuggly-wuggly man was … away from the place where I was supposed to pick up my little munchkins, but a car accident on the main road separated us and the side streets were too icy … away from the center of the road to collide…