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Sans le Nom: The Word of the Day
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Saturday, December 14, 2013. The Word of the Day. Today is my birthday. I turn 46 officially at 11:04 pm, which is uncharacteristic because that's way past my bedtime. Last year I made a Facebook goof and threw a lavish party. This year I'm spending a little less. My present to myself is this. A chance to sit down in a cafe on President Clinton Avenue and write for myself. I'll say, "Mom, I think I was born on a full stomach.". And I'll cry a little bit as she tells me she loves me and hangs up the phone.
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Sans le Nom: Beautiful Dragons
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014. The perception of what is small is the secret of clear. Sightedness; the guarding of what is soft and tender is the secret. Of strength. - Lao Tzu. When I was very young, my mom read to me every night, and when I started first grade, she taught me to read. In essence, she gave me the gifts of life and literacy, yet while I have certainly enjoyed the former to its fullest (thanks, Mom! I'm a little slow sometimes. And Hansel and Gretel were arrested for burglary and capital mur...
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Sans le Nom: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Dead in D.C. It's a little-known fact (or maybe a well-known one) that a lot of people die on the toilet. Elvis Presley being, possibly, one of the most famous examples. I know this because I am a dry cleaner's daughter and was intrigued by an article in the New Yorker. At any rate, I went to Washington, D.C. for a conference on Tuesday. What could it be? Yeah, flights cancelled. And then I sat back on the cool marble floor (the hotel is next door to the White House, what do y...
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Sans le Nom: Lessons I Learned from Family and Friends #1: The Wedding Cake
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Lessons I Learned from Family and Friends #1: The Wedding Cake. Of course, that was the whole point of the exercise: be uncomfortable until you find a place of comfort with the group you will spend this time with, recognize each as a person and not as somehow a representative of a color or a belief or a generation or a place. So my friend told me a story. But then she had to transport the finished cake back to the un-airconditioned farmhouse over several miles of dirt road. So from...
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Sans le Nom: August 2012
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012. Going out of Business. F-Bomb Alert: My mom should not read this post (she will anyway). My teaching career is officially, finally, and irrevocably over. After 19 years in the biz, I've had enough. A few months ago, a friend of mine said, "You know, there are problems at every job; I just need a different set of problems." And I guess I kind of took her statement into my own heart. I didn't actually sign up for a teaching career. Like most things in my life, it fell into my...
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Sans le Nom: September 2012
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012. Interlude: Rhythm and Blues. For the last five years, I've been working 8:00 to 4:30, and I've arrived at a decision:. I don't really give a fuck when I brush my damned teeth. I'm counting 37, not 24, and I'm willing to bet there are more. So much for counting squares.). At one point, (I was still in my 20's) I literally had my days down to fifteen-minute time increments. (And what is. A calendar except for a bunch of squares? He reads with perfect rhythm. Links to this post.
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Sans le Nom: Shiny Happy People
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Monday, February 9, 2015. I use the Internet. I use it a lot. In fact, I don't think my current job would actually exist without it. So this post is about a trend I see happening on the Information Superhighway, specifically the street that makes up social media. (I'd like to explore which part of the Internet is not on Social Media Street these days, but that's a blog for another day.). The trend has already been the subject of at least one research study. Okay, that's not what's depressing me. My thyro...
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Sans le Nom: March 2012
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Thursday, March 22, 2012. Tyler Durden Is a Dear Friend of Mine. So I've spent two mornings waking up at 4:45 to catch the suspect in my gaslighting case. The first morning was a rainy one.very rainy. The entire state was under a flash flood watch and there was concern the Arkansas River would swell out of its banks. I figured the culprit wouldn't show up to tap on my window, and I was right. Then, at 5:07 on the dot:. And both cats went running. For their automatic feeder. At least I'm not crazy. Which ...
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Sans le Nom: December 2011
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Sunday, December 25, 2011. This post contains language that may not be suitable for all readers. Since my dad died, I've been spending a lot more time with my mom because she's by herself. Unfortunately, she also lives 629 miles away, and my husband can only take off one week of work at a time, so I'm generally driving by myself. It's 10 hours one way no matter how I slice it. Twenty total. Twenty long hours to be completely alone with just me. Twenty. Long. Hours. The Led Zeppelin was in here the whole ...
