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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My Man-Crush Done Good
October 12, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
Call me an out-of-touch, over-the-hill, bleeding-heart, tree-hugging liberal, but I love me some Al Gore and always have, even way back before his VP gig. He’s like Clinton without the handsiness. Actually, he’s what a lot of us thought Clinton was.
I know he’s a little bit of a sanctimonious...
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North Dakota Dreaming
October 05, 2007
Filed in: North Dakota
This past weekend in Medora, ND, it was a temperate 56 degrees. Perfect for working up a sweat mountain biking or trail riding, right?
That’s what I thought, anyway. Which is why, six weeks previous, I’d emailed my BFF in the whole wide world, N (who, among her many other talents, builds
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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.
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