Because we can
My pest control guy came by late today and we were talking about his dog who just cost $1200 at the vet for skin care. I said, “It’s insane how much we spend on these dogs.” And he said, “We do it, because we can.”
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It’s Tuesday but feels like we’re diving off a cliff
How can it only be Tuesday? It seems like so much has happened in the past few days that I’m not sure if we are living at some warp speed or what? I mean we’re supposed to be in the lazy South but it sure doesn’t feel like it. The weather went from hot and humid to cold and frigid to absolutely gorgeous in just about 48 hours. The pelicans are here – a clear…
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My first therapist got it right the first time
When I went to therapy for the first time at 20 years old it was because I was in love with a manic depressive alcoholic plus I wanted to be able to get along with my family, who I loved, but was having difficulty. She told me that I should move as far away from my family as I possibly could. October 20, 2009. When Parents Are Too Toxic to Tolerate By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D.…
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The first cut is the deepest
I spoke to an old flame of my mom’s today and gave him the update on her condition. He said a day hasn’t passed in all these years where he doesn’t think of her.
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The wisdom of age
I was driving home the other day from the hospital and found I had two messages on my cellphone. I pulled over to listen to them and they were from a nutty relation spewing venom. I listened without having any feeling whatsoever and then only a mild sense of amusement. I had, I learned today, transcended the moment. If every transaction requires a giver and a receiver and I was not the giver of these…
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Look up, tonight
The best time to watch the earth as it moves past Halley’s Comet debris left in the atmosphere will be between 1 a.m. and dawn local time Wednesday morning, regardless of your location. That’s when the patch of Earth you are standing on is barreling headlong into space on Earth’s orbital track, and meteors get scooped up like bugs on a windshield.
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Are you a lunatic?
There are times when we question our own sanity and believe you me the times I have questioned my own have come up many a time. However, in times like these when the economy is on the brink of something (ruin or reignition?), my mother is hooked up to machinery that is helping her to “live”, I’m running an ad for adoption that appears just above grave sites for sale, and a family member has…
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When you are a parody of yourself
Today in step class as I did knee lifts and then arabesques and revolutions, and listen to the instructor yell WOO, I thought that I might be in some sort of experiment bubble where aliens have given us more food than we should eat and then threw in some wine and now fat, we get on the hamster wheel and churn churn churn it out. Are they laughing at us?
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What if god was one of us?
I wonder if god was one of us whether god’s life would be a series of routines like walking the dog, drinking tea, going to work, exercising, eating, taking a shower, and bed.
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When other people make you dinner
We were invited to friends last night for dinner – we usually loathe to leave the house on Sunday but had been turning down invitations for too long. We had a wonderful dinner of salad with lemony vinaigrette, homemade pasta of ham and mushroom lasagna, and afterwards a chocolate bomb souffle, not to mention good conversation. Sometimes it is worth leaving the house.