It’s important to me that my husband, the Norwegian Artist, stay in good shape. That’s why, when I head to the studio to exercise with a DVD in the upstairs TV room, I kick the man out. So he can garden. Or chop wood. Or muck out the goat pen. Or bring the garbage [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Bruce Willis Knitting
May 18th, 2011
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I confess: I engage in reckless behavior. Sometimes I salt my food before I taste it. I set the cruise control for two miles over the speed limit. If the headache’s bad enough, I’ll take two aspirin instead of one. But perhaps my most dangerous side, my Die Hard Bruce Willis persona, comes out in [...]
Card Me — Please!
May 11th, 2011
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I just bought a bottle of beer so that I can make more shampoo. Yeah, that’s right. I pour beer on my head, mixed with a liquid soap that has pronounceable and recognizable words in the ingredient list (Olive Oil, Citric Acid, Vitamin E) in my tiny, tinny little efforts to decrease the amount of [...]
An Alarming Faceoff in the Bedroom
May 4th, 2011
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When you think about all the ways that two different people — say, a Norwegian Artist and a Polish Writer — do things, it’s amazing that relationships last at all. Take alarm clocks, for instance. For years, the whinnying diminutive exploding box resided on the Norwegian Artist’s side, and, because he didn’t like red numbers [...]
