January 2011

*UPDATED* Parade! (Magazine, not “of Ailments.”)

January 23, 2011

As a kind reader helpfully reminded me in the comments of my newest post, I forgot to mention that I have an essay in today’s PARADE Magazine, which may well be slipped between the folds of your newspaper right at this very moment. Quick, run and check! It looks like this: I am this week’s [...]

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Janus in Fragments.

January 22, 2011

Sunday the 16th After some unbloggable unpleasantness last week, I thought at least I knew what January had in store for me this year, but no! Simone, not content to confine herself to one illness at a time, has both CROUP! and pneumonia. This is not the you-won’t-even-know-I’m-here pneumonia a person just walks around with, [...]

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It’s Always Feast or Famine Around Here, Isn’t It?

January 2, 2011

I hear that Mercury has been Retrograde—or it was, anyway, from December 10th, a few days before I last posted, until last Friday-ish—and that this Retrograde-ness is simply DREADFUL for communication, or technology, or communicating with technology, or whatnot. Can I blame Mercury for my lack of posting even if I don’t believe in astrology? [...]

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