Good news for today
Feels good. Feels real good.
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Web MD
Can someone reassure me that this, whatever this is, will not kill me? Since I don’t have the patience to wait for any qualified advice, against my better judgment, which is already somewhat questionable, I just went on WebMD to check my symptoms, which are mainly: 1) unidentifiable weird bite/sting thing on my hand, 2) […]
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The crime gene
For my thirtieth birthday, Al bought me a genetic testing kit – you can send it away and find out what percentage of Neanderthal DNA you carry, for example, and you can also discover all the hideous genetic diseases you might unwittingly pass to your children. I know it’s not the most romantic gift, but […]
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Book review Tuesday: My Life in France (Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme)
As a writer, I feel that it’s part of my job to constantly read. Which is good, because I would do this anyway. Even during my law school and attorney days, after long days of reading dry-as-a-bone legal documents and cases, I’d come home and read fiction for hours. In fact, looking back over my […]
Politics
I voted early this year and, to my delight and relief, missed most of the election week hubbub, except for the inescapable flood of Facebook posts from friends and acquaintances earnestly urging me to vote, or, even better, to vote for one candidate over another. Ugh. I mean, when will people learn that social media […]
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The Wizard of Loneliness
The Wizard of Loneliness was the title of a book I read in middle school. I remember literally nothing about the book other than the title. I even looked it up on Amazon and read the description and still didn’t remember anything about it. It obviously made a big impression on me. Nonetheless, the title […]
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Just a small post…
… To say that things are somewhat coming together over here. We don’t have the stuff that we shipped from DC (but it’s being delivered Friday, supposedly). I still don’t have a desk. Our toilet leaks. We only have one (rental) car and one set of housekeys between the two of us. And last night […]
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Thirty
I woke up today, my thirtieth birthday, with a hangover from drinking too much Pinotage at a South African country estate near Pretoria. So I guess this is my life now. It’s been kind of a whirlwind. I left DC on Wednesday afternoon and got into Johannesburg on Thursday evening. Al was waiting for me […]
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