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I’m feeling a little… ravished today. I think that’s the word I want. Let me go check… Hahaha. Nope. Definiely not the word I want. I should delete that opening line and start over, but this is apparently a post about how my mind works. Let me try again. What I meant to say is… […]
Read MoreDispositioning J
(Grammar note. Disposition is, technically speaking, according to every reliable source I checked, a noun. Only a noun. I’m using it as a verb. That is all.) On Tuesday, frustrated because I couldn’t find an article I knew I’d saved, I spent the morning (and, to be honest, a large part of the afternoon as […]
Read MoreThat other afternoon delight…
I think I should take naps. I stopped taking them when I was six and, frankly, things have been a little crazy ever since. The benefits of napping are numerous. First of all, it’s what our bodies want. You’re not imagining that urge to sleep in the afternoon; it’s real. In a 24-hour period, our […]
Read MoreMake It Up As You Go
I decided on Friday that I would spend the day making it up as I go. I loaded my backpack up with possible activities – my laptop, my notebook, a set of jacks, earphones, coloring books, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo… I was prepared to be imaginative. But on my way out, I got […]
Read MoreTickling My Amygdala
I wasn’t in a bad mood before it came on, but still, the song was working its magic – as music often does – activating the happy particles of my biological chemistry. There are things that do that, I think, things that touch us on an unconscious level, perform a bit of molecular magic and […]
Read MoreHere to help you get your patriotic on… properly
I got curious about the flag today. I like to display my flag on the 4th of July. I like when other people display their flags on the 4th of July too. In fact, on the 4th of July, I have the sense that we are all in this together, all united, all red, white […]
Read MoreWhat’s Love Got To Do With It?
I just heard another online dating service success story. That makes… a million. Okay, maybe not a million, but it seems that over the last few months, several happy couples (some of them married) have told me that they met online. I remember when there was a certain stigma attached to online dating. We traditional […]
Read MoreWhat takes you back?
The other day, in the grocery store, I heard the Peaches and Herb song, Reunited. I am not crazy about that song, but there was a time (I am somewhat reluctant to admit) when I was. I used to listen to the radio waiting to hear it. (Remember when you used to have to do […]
Read MoreSay cheese!
In my book Beautiful Lives there is a three-legged dog named Outlet who smiles. I wrote him in for excellent dramatic reasons, of course, but also because I am a sucker for a dog that smiles. My dog, Lexi, isn’t really a smiler. More often than not, the camera captures her sad-eyed hound dog expression […]
Read MoreGet that man a cape!
How could I not read a news story with this title: “16 People, 8 Kidneys, One Domino Transplant.” Not only does the title suggest science at its most magical best, but it sits above a photograph of a happy, smiling donor and a happy smiling surgeon with an enormous mustache. Here’s how it worked. This […]
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