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Seven Years

As always, my feelings about today are put so much better by someone else. Sars wrote one of the most powerful pieces about that morning that I’ve ever read. While I was gripped by the horror of something like that happening, and I was struck by the strangeness of an empty, planeless sky, she trudged […]

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Decision Time

So, I have this dilemma, and I’d love it if anyone reading this would weigh in. Who knows, maybe in writing this it’ll help make up my mind… I’ve been taking hockey classes through the Pacific Hockey Association (PHA) since the beginning of June. My friends have played on PHA league teams in the past. […]

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Criminal Musings

Driving home from our last Tuesday skate before she and her husband move to North Carolina, I see the sign for Dee’s exit and have to book it into the exit lane: Me: Crap, I need to get over!” Dee: You’re fine, you have a ways Me: I was auto-piloting home Dee: Well that’s a […]

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Making up for the absence with a doozy

I’ve mentioned here before a family for whom I used to babysit, and from whom I have since become estranged. They’ve been occupying a lot of space in my mind and heart this week, and that space has weighed heavily because it has brought to light connection with more recent events… I’ve mentioned before their […]

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On my seventh birthday, we finished dinner, had cake, and my parents gave me my presents. Weirdly, seven is a birthday that I remember better than any other birthday as a kid. In fact, it may be the only one that I remember the specific presents. I don’t remember what my parents gave me, but […]

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It tastes like burning!

I don’t know if it’s made national news, but Northern California is on fire. Where I live and work are safe, as are my family and friends, but there are 3 or 4 fires in this area, and when I breathe through my nose it smells like fire. I don’t like it. The Oakland Hills […]

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Unmotivated is an understatement

I have hockey class in two hours and I don’t want to go. My gear is all packed and ready, except for my gloves which Chad is going to bring to me because I lent them to Nicky earlier this week. Last night was Bravo, a big fund-raising event for the theater where I work. […]

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For Future Reference

I saw this in a sig line on a forum and wanted to stick it somewhere for later remembering. “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.” -Bill the Cat