Asshead in Alaska

November 27, 2007

Filed in: Alaska, The Middle Ages

Do you have a wild and crazy friend from college? Someone who was way, way naughtier than you were (however bad that may or may not have been)? Someone with or from whom you were almost infected, arrested, addicted, ejected, indicted or all of the above?

Me too. Aren’t they great? For me, those...

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Getting/Spending/Laying Waste

October 26, 2007

Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages

I loathe when people tell you how busy they are. I’m like, save it, Sistah, we’re all busy, it’s a busy world out there.

Having said that, it’s been a rough patch of busy-ness here in Swellville, and not the we-sure-are-living-full-lives kind, more the slog-till-you-drop kind.

Which is maybe...

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Are You Sure?

September 30, 2007

Filed in: The Middle Ages, The Way We Live Now

Over at the Practically Perfect blog, Jennifer is remarking upon the phenomenon of magazines, now even men’s magazines, spending all their editorial energy telling their readers how to improve the little, improvable parts of their lives while pretty much ignoring both the Big Questions and the...

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Love O Careless Love

September 20, 2007

Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages

Did anyone else catch Donald Hall’s poem in today’s Writer’s Almanac?

He’s got a line that pretty much sums up my philosophy on marriage (if I could be said to have such a thing):

We learned how to love each other
by loving together
good things wholly outside each other.

Exactly.

Also...

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Tag. You’re It

September 13, 2007

Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages

UPDATE: As I’m sure you’ve already guessed, this weekend was transfigurative. Friday I was a girl who hated yard sales because she was an insecure snob. Tonight I am a woman who hates yard sales because they suck. Never again, dear readers. Never. Again.

Related: anbody interested in four...

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