Some days it is necessary to be quiet. Not the hold-your-tongue-when-someone-says-something-stupid quiet, but the I-need-to-rest-my-brain quiet. When I lived in Florida, I spent a lot of time alone because we were only able to make a few close connections there due to the short duration of our stay and the lack of money to do [...]
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Dear God, I Want to Learn About Periods Again
I am a planner. I like to know what I am getting myself into. I think it was my mother who instilled this in me when I was in fourth grade and she took me to the restaurant called Chi-Chi’s to give me The Talk. I stuffed my face with chips and salsa while we [...]
READ MORE »Conversations with Lynn: On Helping
While Sitting in the Living Room Lynn: I really help you, don’t I? Me: Yes you do. Lynn: I come up with those sentences that add the extra seasoning to your writing. Me: Sure do. Lynn: What about, ‘swallowed by the great blue transparency’? Me: What? Lynn: Swallowed by the great blue transparency- I like [...]
READ MORE »Bill Gates the Orkin Man
Today we had a visit from the Orkin man so that we could slaughter the carpenter ants that have infested our cabinets. I thought that we must have like 10,000 ants based on the amount of wood shavings in the kitchen, but Bob the bug man said it was more like a few thousand. I [...]
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