Year: 2011
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: scram. no, wait, stay there :
These are exciting times, are they not? I mean, scientists are closing in on the God particle (formally called the Higgs boson) and that’s thrilling because, well, something to do with mass and subatomic physics and colliding particles. According to some (but certainly not all), Einstein’s theory of gravity has been disproved. Wowie! Then, too,…
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: what is that whistling? :
Sorry, that’s my nose. I don’t know why, but lately it’s begun whistling like a kettle on the boil. Tootling and squeaking to beat the band. Not all the time, not even most of the time, but often enough to be really irritating. It’s hard to maintain your focus when you have an unpredictable woodwind…
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: a head warming tale :
How I’ve pined for a hat with earflaps. I wore one through a couple of bitterly cold, arctic-like winters and I credit my survival to that goofy thing. And to my coat, a parka so heavy and dense it’s quite possibly bullet-proof. Nothing penetrates the fabric, not snow or howling winds or an icy rain.…
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: my phone, the stoolie :
Boy, is my face red. All this time I thought that black thing, the one that rings and vibrates and bleats, was a cellphone. It’s not, it’s an informant. A snitch, a fink, a canary. It’s been keeping tabs on every phone call and text message and internet search and website visit. I’m not the…
the whirly girl 