Category: life
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: the resolution to end all resolutions :
Forget the poetic aphorisms. Forget the smarmy clichés. What the world needs is a straightforward, practical New Year’s resolution. Something to make life a little less painful. And whaddya know? I came up with one: Quit carrying pushpins in your pockets. Yesterday, New Year’s Eve, I arranged bulletin boards. Today, the day after, one thigh…
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: do not enter :
You don’t want to see this, I promise. Things are gonna get ugly around here and probably quit working altogether. Or wind up badly broken, at best. You see, I’m getting ready to gut this place — from top to bottom — and start fresh. No more header, no more footer, no more sidebars. No…
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: crazy or valiant? :
Here it is, 5 days before Christmas and a mere 48 hours before a bomb cyclone is forecast to blow in with ‘dangerous blizzard conditions’ and subzero temperatures. So what do I do? I head to Walmart, a frenzied, teeming mob-scene under the best of circumstances. What, may I ask, does that kind of behavior…
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: this is not a drill :
This is an actual emergency and a dire one, at that. The election is only two days away and I’m not prepared for what may lie ahead. All day every day, I swing between abject despair and rage, utter disgust and white-knuckle anxiety. So to save my poor, weary, overburdened mind I deleted the twitter…