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As I was walking home today with a hot cross bun, I raced past a nascent capitalist out hawking lemonade to the passers-by for the low, low price of fifty cents. Had I any money …

I’m reading a book about baby sleep. “What is there to know?” you ask (those of you without children, that is. Those of you with kids know exactly what there is to know–anything and everything). …

For god’s sake, we’ve been together for eight years. Hell, we’ve been together almost nine, but today we drove like bats out of hell to Reno, went to the goofiest chapel under the sun, got …

I just had a visit from a friend who works in animation. A competitor of her company is the maker of Veggie Tales, the unlikely cartoon series that utilizes vegetables as the protagonists of their …

In the last three years, my family has grown by a factor of ten or so, when my mother discovered that her long lost sister just happened to be living in the same town as …

My husband asked at the end of the episode, “Why did both female leads get turned into vessels for evil higher beings?”
This is a very good question.
Now, we all know that Joss fancies himself a …

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Shakespeare
The problem with growing older is this: when we were young and feckless, it was easy to draw the lines in …

Our next door neighbor is in his nineties. He was pretty spry when we moved in four years ago, but he seems to have had a setback over the last year and isn’t as vital …

I wrote this haiku series last year re: Elvis’ death, and after reminded of it I decided that I’d better go find it lest it be lost forever. Me and Basho…yep.
Moonlight in Memphis
bounces off fake …

On Sundays, the husband and I have a tradition of reading the New York Times, slumming around the house, and watching (with one eye) whatever dreck is on television. We don’t have cable, so we …

I saw my neighbor gardening in her underwear last night around midnight. As though those azaleas just couldn’t wait.

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