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Love Shark

I stumbled across my “free will astrology” horoscope recently, which factually advised me that “it is an excellent time to coax out the tender, romantic side of [my] inner shark, as well as the inner shark of anyone [I'm] attracted to.” As I reflected on my inner love shark, I decided the best way to [...]

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Four Love Poems

I’ve just started Love’s Labour’s Lost (imagine! A Shakespeare comedy with no weddings in it!) and it has put me on a love poetry reading jag. Emily Dickinson got me going with this one (c. 1880), so apropos of LLL: We shall find the Cube of the Rainbow. Of that, there is no doubt. But [...]

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i miss my man

an’ he been gone all week. So I made him a playlist called Get Back To Me. Here it is: Don’t Make Me Wait / LocksleyDo You Want to / Franz FerdinandSugar Magnolia / Grateful DeadYou Only Live Once / The StrokesSugar on My Tongue / Talking HeadsStickshifts and Safetybelts / CakeCome On Home / [...]

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Second Chance Card

Today is just one of those days; too much to do and not enough resources to get everything done. I was cranky and worried and I told several people in vivid and eloquent terms that I felt like cat yak, once right before we went through the buffet line at lunch (which may have put [...]

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Our Wedding Photos (all 11)

I know y’all have been waiting, like, for a really loooong time for me to get our wedding photos uploaded so you can see them. Well the wait is over. Here’s all eleven of those shots from that famous fifteen minutes in 1987 that changed the world. (If you can’t see them above, click over [...]

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Love Is A Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

Phenomenal. I devoured this book, mixed and penned by Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield, in two late night reads, only because I forced myself to stop and savor the last half on a second night rather than read until the sun rose. Beautiful and anguished by turns, interwoven with the music of love and death [...]

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boyfriend sweater

I may have outdone myself. This is one of the best mixtapes I’ve made so far. Comforting, with boyfriend-scented memories and a slow dance or two. Eminently listenable, it’s the perfect mix of blues, folk, pop, indie, and rock-n-roll. A little bit of cheery whistling, some harmonica, even some faux snake rattles (REO, in homage [...]

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sorry, ladies, he doesn’t have any brothers

The Husband: Remember last night when I asked you for those three phone numbers? Well, I lost the slip of paper I wrote those down on, and I am sorry to bother you again, but I will type them directly into my address book on the computer now, I promise. Me: Oh, I don’t mind [...]

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I think we just won a parenting jackpot

Me: What’s one of the BEST things about our family?The Maker (thinking carefully): You get to tell.Me (after a stunned silence): You mean, like if someone does something mean or scary, or tries to hurt you?The Maker (smiling calmly): Yeah. We can tell.

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why men are wonderful

A few months ago I decided I would like to lose five pounds. More recently I got started on the project in earnest. As the weight began to come off, I noticed a cool benchmark in the process I hadn’t thought of before. “I’ve decided to get the ’6′ out of the ten’s place in [...]

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