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It’s not just me that’s out of sorts

This from my neighborhood email list: At 5:45 p.m. this afternoon, my next-door-neighbors encountered a man in front of their house.  He was a light-skinned African man, in his 40’s or early 50’s, incoherent, and wearing plaid pants.  My neighbors asked him if he needed anything, and then he took a wad of money out of his pocket and started to eat the money.  They called the police.  If you don’t believe me, there are small…

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Change of pace

There are a lot of reasons to be down – I could start counting them – the industry that I write about is in turmoil, the industry that I work for is in turmoil, the city I live in suffers from hurricane-itis, my truck needed repair, shall I continue? Why bother. Really, these are all external factors that try to ruin your joie de vivre. Today is the first day of Autumn. My favorite season.…

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If today was the first day of the rest of my life, I’d…

I’d go back to bed. Both Loca and I were sick for the latter part of the weekend – she went down first on Saturday night with horrible diarrhea, then I got up Sunday morning and thought that two glasses of wine was too much for a hangover, and by the time I was crying my eyes out over an article in the Sunday NYT about a man who wrote about his baby who died…

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Time flies when you’re having fun

I entered the busy weekend a little shell shocked about losing all my work emails – it’s almost like my lost luggage – you keep thinking it will turn up but when it doesn’t you just kind of walk around feeling a little strange. We’ve had such a fun weekend but it all came crashing down this morning when I woke up feeling sick – I knew the couple of glasses of wine at the…

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Great idea!

Here’s a great option, and a wonderful and productive idea. Planned Parenthood is all about choice, and education and decisions that are best for the health of everyone. So consider this: Instead of (or, in addition to) sending around more emails “voicing our concerns” about Gov. Sarah Palin, let’s honor her more. Let’s all make a $10 donation to Planned Parenthood. In Sarah Palin’s name. And here’s the good part: when you make a donation…

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How do you know?

I was speaking to an overseas friend this morning while T and I sat on the screen porch having our tea and breakfast. He said he was having a hard time at work because management kept layering on nebulous goals and then changing the game plan and stressing everyone out over making their numbers. I said these are tough times. But I don’t think anyone is unscathed. I met a woman the other night at…

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