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Vanishing into books, I felt held . ~from Family Life , Akhil Sharma I should be grading papers about Lydia Davis. Or I should go to...

I loved my job today. I knitted word socks. It's cold, in general mostly. People need good socks. You don't think that's necessa...

"Complete relax. Always remember one thing, you have nothing to lose because you never had anything at the first place, life and death ...

LBJ buys pants from his white house phone - the burp right before the word 'bunghole' suggests that TJ could actually become presid...

And after, no one will really ever remember it. Like the greatest crimes, it will be as if it never happened. The suffering, the deaths, the...

A couple of years ago I printed the contents of this blog out and at that time it was about 3 reams of papers worth. Why do I write all this...

VIRGO: Have you been tapping into your proper share of smart love, interesting beauty, and creative mojo? Are you enjoying the succulent ...

"The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrati...

"Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them." Richard Strauss, on conducting . ~ from A Wife's Guide to In-...

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1 Thessalonians 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 19 Que...

He is famously kind, my husband. Always sending money to those afflicted with obscure diseases or shoveling the walk of the crazy neighbor ...

VIRGO "You'll be asked to make a sacrifice in the name of love. It's probably a small concession, but it will set the tone for ...

"We wash our feet five times a day," my grandmother declares hotly in Arabic. "My feet are cleaner than their sink. Wo...

http://m.n know all 28iagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/group-working-to-identify-trees-of-historical-significance-in-the/article_d79122fd-...

Pms: insomnia and violently wishing I never had to see my in-laws again. This is insane, admittedly, since I never DO see them except in my ...

From The Witch, for us both.

I went back to yoga today, first time in just over one year. When I'd sweat enough to get to nothing going on in my head at all, least o...

I'm updating my class site for contemporary writers in the coming semester. I haven't run it since Franco came out with the Child of...

The kids always win dirty Pictionary (unless Jackie is playing). "prostate"

http://www.box.net/shared/static/38oa4eqmuj.mp3 my idea of Christmas music this morning, gearing up to kiss 2014 the fuck to the curb an...

Gingerbread crackhouse, another tradition. Tomorrow we'll add the Ho Ho Hoes...

Torturing the pets, a holiday classic.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/the-unbreakable-laura-hillenbrand.html?referrer=  VIRGO  Common decency perhaps isn't as...

One of the people I work with asked me about scrapbooking in the 19th century. First of all, how would I know that? And second of all, I did...

I am mulling my shrink's insistence until my last visit that my ego, wounded, is temporarily in charge of me. Not my spirit. Which is be...

The wife makes insomniac proclamations to herself in the dark, "People who can talk things out, they use their ability to articulate i...

"Snakes, knives, strangers, darkening in the sky—you felt some things with your whole body. What they might mean. It could be they were...