Republican D’oh!

I don’t really comment on politics but some shit just screams for attention.
According to nationalatlas.gov, a formerly staunchly GOP stomping ground congressional district in Oregon will soon be overwhelmingly Democratic. Why?
Another hot race is OR-05, where Democrat Darlene Hooley is retiring in a swing district. At first the Republicans looked like that had [...]

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Silver Panacea

Yesterday morning began with my taking Bob’s Prius from my blink-and-you’ll -miss-it town 45 minutes away to the nearest biggish city to meet my old friend (it is the friendship that is old, not my friend) Naturedoc for lunch. We’ve known one another since we were undergrads at McGill University, 21 years ago (gah) [...]

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Computer Implosion

I’m typing this on my husband’s computer, as mine has sadly gone the way of all things.
In fairness, the deceased was an 8 year-old Dell I had inherited from Bob, full of his crap, er, very important files and programs.  I filled up some of the spaces that remained and have been using it, watching [...]

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Thing is, snakes don’t have fingers

Two evenings ago, Bob helped me spread some goopy crap on my face to induce a peel.
Yeah, vanity has set in and I wanted to do some nuclear exfoliation for younger, more youthful-looking skin.
Initially, it felt like I’d been bitch slapped by a loofah.
Now, however, I am doing a cunning impression of a tunnel snake.
My [...]

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Are ya coming?

RSVPs are starting to come in (through email or phone calls only: no unnecessary mail system clogging), but there are important people in my extended family from whom we have not yet heard.
My cousin in Calgary says he would like to come to the upcoming Bat Mitzvah. I say like to because he feels [...]

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Point of You

It’s Monday all over the place.
So, I was going over narrative structure with my Comp kids today when I wrote THAT on the board.
One of my students, dutifully taking notes without having to be reminded that some of the material might just come in handy, looked up quizzically and read what I’d scrawled in black [...]

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What the hell is an apostrifier?

I’m taking a break while I grade Foundational English midterms (shudder) and I had to stop and blog about the answer I got for a question I put to my darling cherubs about what was wrong with something very much like this photo:
One of my graphic design, tetris-addicted sweetumses answered, “No apostrifiers.”
Thwack.
Thwackity.
Thwack.
That’s be [...]

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Lobotomy Sneeze

I like to catalog the way other people sneeze.
Yep, this here is a highly reflective, ultra sophisticated post. About sneezing.
Also called sternutation, sneezing is the body’s way of removing an irritation from your nose. Explosively.
When I sneeze, which I have been doing a great deal of in this, the tail end of hay [...]

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Blessed silence

Underneath me in the garage is a car that, until very recently, I did NOT want to drive unless I had loud music or a cranked AC. The Rendezvous’ transmission made such a ruckus that my friends routinely suggested taking THEIR cars instead of mine to preclude a trip’s worth of dentist-drill caliber aural [...]

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Alien Encounter

So, Wednesday morning I was sitting at an outdoor cafe on a leafy downtown street in Montreal. Next to me on the cast iron chair, was an old friend and across from us was her blond friend, sporting dark-sunglasses (we were sitting in the shade) . We chatted idly over [...]

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