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Arms akimbo in the land of lotus eaters

April 16, 2011 therapy in session

This paragraph from A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, which won the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award (ETA: AND the 2011 Pulitzer Prize!) for fiction, is one of the most hauntingly vivid descriptions of a marriage that I have ever read. At the same time the description sounds clinical, meticulous, it strikes me [...]

Tagged as: i am not insane, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, Indifference is the worst kind of betrayal, not talking about what i really want to talk about, The ability to feel pain is the privilege of the living, things i want to say out loud, things you should know

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Things You Should Read

April 15, 2011 imho is just a polite way to say I know you don't give a hoot what I think but I'm going to say it anyway

Instead of reading my blog, here are two things I came across today that you should read over the weekend: From the New York Times, A Gay Former N.B.A. Player Responds to Kobe Bryant, by John Amaechi, who in 2007 was the first NBA player to come out. We have all heard that Kobe called [...]

Tagged as: damn liberals, the personal is political, things you should know, wish i were a better writer so i could adequately express how much i love this and why

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Mass at 5

January 30, 2011 no manual for parenting

Warning: According to my Blog Advisory System, this post is rated RED for The Touchiest of All Touchy Subjects. I wrote it last week but did not have the heart to publish it because I was worried about losing readership. In the end though, I have got to do what feels right by me and [...]

Tagged as: can't bite my tongue, Catholic church and me, GOP YOU CAN’T TAKE AMERICA BACK THE REST OF US ARE STILL USING IT, trying to do the right thing

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We are all in this

January 17, 2011 this i believe

**The following is a repost from Martin Luther King Day, 2010** Mr. Monk, my 7-year-going-on-50-old child, asked me last Friday at dinner, “Mom, is it true that you would not be here if Martin Luther King did not give THAT speech?” I was caught by surprise, I’ll be completely honest. Although I understand the impact [...]

Tagged as: Martin Luther King, my youngest, people smarter than I am, schooled and humbled, the golden rule, things kids say, we are all in this, we are the world

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$5000 a Bullet

January 13, 2011 this i believe

Many of us have seen Chris Rock’s standup routine on gun control, or as he called it “Bullet Control”, either on YouTube or in the movie Bowling for Columbine. In the wake of the shooting in Arizona, there is a heated discussion surrounding the fact that 1) the gunman fired off a large capacity magazine [...]

Tagged as: damn liberals, funny haha, funny scary, i am a fan, Once you realize what a joke everything is being the comedian is the only thing that makes sense, video, what do you know?, what keeps me awake

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35 seconds

January 12, 2011 this i believe

. . On January 12, 2010, at 4:53 pm, in Haiti, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale has plunged Haiti into hell… 35 seconds later… the capital of Port-au-Prince was destroyed over 75%. Today it is estimated that the number of dead could rise 300.0000 dead “as many” injuries and [...]

There is no shame on the bandwagon if it is for a worthy cause

December 16, 2010 this i believe

WARNING: Wagon jumping here! . . I learned of Beads of Courage from BugginWord, a charity that I have never heard of until today. The main program is based on a concept so “simple” yet so brilliant (’cause many probably thought to themselves: “Why didn’t anybody think of this sooner?!”) that is making a huge [...]

Tagged as: Beads of Courage, When they own their stories they own their illness, wish i were a better writer so i could adequately express how much i love this and why

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Let’s paint the town red

December 1, 2010 this i believe

Let’s paint the town red because there is much to be celebrated today. Elly kicked cancer’s butt! She has been declared cancer-FREE by her doctor. It is likely though that she is still radioactive from, you know, activating the Wonder Twin power in her epic battle against that super villain. But like Harry Potter, LOVE [...]

Tagged as: "She sat down that we might stand", Civil Rights Movement, Happy Hanukkah!, i am a fan, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!, World AIDS Day

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This is what hope looks like

November 15, 2010 imho is just a polite way to say I know you don't give a hoot what I think but I'm going to say it anyway

As a researcher, you hate it when you come across a piece of evidence that proves against the theory/conclusion you are hoping to make. How I wish I could sweep it under the rug. Pretend I’ve never seen it. Plead ignorance. I hate being able to see both sides: Why can’t I just believe in [...]

Tagged as: i am a fan, psychotic foaming, strangers I am grateful for, we are all in this

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The Faces of Those Who Were There

November 11, 2010 this i believe

. . In 2005, as he watched the news of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Matthew Mitchell, a painter in Amherst, MA, felt disconnected and feared that the memories of the soldiers, like the news, would soon fade. “The big danger that we have is that we can forget about war.” He decided to do [...]

Tagged as: NPR, strangers I am grateful for, Thank you!, You don't have to support the war to support the troops

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