Bad Blood

Some days I wish I could sit on a park bench feeding birds all day, or at least spend all day watching those who do. Research, seminars, and working with an assistant who oozes a musty/sweet asphyxiating perfume, are all wearing me down. I love most every minute of my …

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Life Is Not A Beach

I spent the day at the Library of Congress. The hottest day we’ve had all year, and early in the morning, because I’d skipped my morning run, I decided to walk to the library from New Hampshire and M. I had snagged my aunts assistant’s parking garage space for the …

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This One Goes Out To The One I Love

The Morocco trip started as a great idea. With 5 days off, my second summer session a week away, and a holiday approaching, I was free. Saying yes to meeting him in Morocco was easy. Unrealized, the fact that taking off to Morocco on the spur of the moment was …

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Come As You Are

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When you take someone up on an invitation for a night out, and the invitation starts with “Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be”, be forewarned. You won’t escape from such an event until well after noon the following day. When you do extricate …

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Resigned

Ah, when will life be simple and magical again? School, work, and my behind recovering from a Saturday of snowboarding in freezing rain — is there anything I won’t do for an adrenalin rush is a question I should ask myself — has tightened the corridor of blogging space in …

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