We disagree with one another a lot these days, but I think I’ve found three sentences we can all say, “Yes, that’s true,” to: 1) We are all born. 2) We all die. 3) In between, we operate each of our lives based upon individual belief systems, which in themselves are loosely or tightly based [...]
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Dirty Talk, or, Compost Conversation
March 22nd, 2012
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You know, if you limit your conversation to non-controversial topics, you’ll never talk at all. And considering that these days people get pretty sensitive about a wide variety of subject matter – not just the Big Three of Sex, Religion, and Politics — then the gag on the mouth goes for all of us, not [...]
Kung Foo Sudoku
March 14th, 2012
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Unless it happens to be your weekend, there’s not much to look forward to about Mondays. The best thing I find about the day is the end of it, when I sit down to the newspaper, toss the sports section (this gives you an idea of what kind of “team player” I am), and, hands [...]
Over Pre-Occupied with Occupy, Wall Street, and Tea Parties
November 9th, 2011
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My poor Norwegian Artist. The man spent the entire afternoon downloading a graphic design and photo software program to his computer, only to find that, in order to open the program and actually use it, he needed another download. But that’s okay, because the second download was free, according to the big button alongside its [...]
Lost — in Plain Sight
June 15th, 2011
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I am on a Most Wanted list. Actually, it’s more like the Lost and Found of my high school alumnae committee, which for the last 30 years has experienced monumental difficulties in tracking me down and verifying my existence. It’s kind of exciting — as if I’m Sydney Bristow of Alias, with this amazing ability [...]
