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I had to poke around the ol’ hamblog today, sending links to my epic “health care, we have a problem” series to a person I recently met who is starting a nonprofit related to end-of-life matters and I am SO EXCITED for it to come to fruition. For if there is one takeaway from my experiences…
Read Morethe post i’ve been waiting for
American Express sent me a card 25 years ago. I was unprepared for that kind of power. Shortly thereafter (even though I neglected to pay the AmEx in full on time every month) my bank sent me a Visa card. I was extraextra, horrifically unprepared for that kind of power. I was very naive about…
Read Morehave a great summer see you next fall
How many times have you or I written that out in a yearbook — scrawled feverishly while still in motion, looking for that girl or that boy to sign yours. And most likely, s/he signed with the same old silliness. Until, of course, once you arrive at your very best friend’s yearbook, the multiple page…
Read MoreHow-o-lee Laa Haa-now to me
It’s my birthday. I am in Kauai. I highly recommend doing this for your next birthday, and inviting me along. I’m about to get on a helicopter then later, get on some roast pig at a luau. USA! USA! Here’s an apple banana and something called a chico. Here is a view outside our jungle…
Read Morethe restorative properties of a good night’s sleep
I only woke to my sister calling this morning and asking me where she should overnight her present to me because “I might want to use it for the party.” And to this amazing comment on the last post by Jeana: Another one of my Beckys (Beckies?) described her birthday (yesterday) as the griefiest day…
Read Moreletting go/letting in
Always, always a pre-birthday mental maelstrom. Always. Never not. The click of the odometer to a “milestone” birthday makes the evils thoughts spin even faster, deeper. Fortunately, the very process that trips me up — getting older — is the very thing that helps me get through it. Oh, crazy thoughts, you’ve hassled me before,…
Read Morebrand new car
[direct link] Oh good god. I bought a new car, as in: 7 miles on the odometer when I drove it off the lot. As in: I actually don’t own a car, the financers own the car, but this is what people mean when they say they own a car. As in: no more horrible…
Read Morefloating through spring
Blood moon lunar eclipse last night. Apt, since there was plenty of blood on my moonface yesterday. If I had the faculties to pay attention during my many springs in California, I probably would have noticed a pattern of feeling like … this … every year. This sentence is one of those snakes-swallowing-its-own-tail feedback loops…
Read Morei’ve got new shoots
I feel skinless and trembly and just-molted in an exciting/uncomfortable way. I think I can safely say that I often feel this way at the start of spring. Not that we have had ANY differentiation between winter, spring, summer or fall in this weirdo, always-72° non-weather zone, but the shift of the light, the smell…
Read Morequarterly report, march 2014
This free wifi in my apartment is less than … well, good .. and I lost a bunch of revisions to a blog post that got so bogged down and boring that I had to nap just writing it. Maybe it’s a sign that the post shall be eternally in Draft mode. In essence: I…
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