I haven’t felt much like writing lately. More stuff has happened in my family, and my life boils down to phone calls and feeling useless far away from home.
But it’s sometimes good to get away from your thoughts, to keep busy, to not feel useless or sad.
We went to Yosemite (my favorite place) to its [...]
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I hate greeting cards. Someone is thinking up ways to express joy, congratulations or sorrow, illustrated with flowers or cakes or birds, with dreadful words, often rhyming.
I wish that more greeting cards came blank. I try whenever possible to find them, but I don’t think they make them in sympathy cards. Once, I wrote a [...]
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I took a meandering drive the other day and ended up in an isolated, community cemetery.
Many of the graves were old, but there was a newer contingent, somehow more sad because they were more recently connected with grief and loss.
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I relished the quiet of the cemetery near the foothills, and the view of a snowcapped [...]
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1. Wash me or other nonsense written in back window of a very dirty vehicle.
2. Fart jokes.
3. Snickering at suggestive words like a 12-year-old.
This should be an interactive list. Respond with some of your own.
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Imagine you and your roommate have been carousing late into the night, when your roommate decides she’d really like some food from a substandard franchise we will call, for the sake of this scenario, Burrito Smell.
First of all, you have no business eating at Burrito Smell, a national, Americanized blot masquerading as Mexican food. You live [...]
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Do I look like a Mrs? Do I look like I ought to be married? Is that the store clerk’s way of telling me I should be married now?
I went to the grocery store. Nothing I bought said married, or married with kids. I’d bought no diapers and no beef jerky for my fictional manly-man [...]
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I’ve been burning to drive up to Yosemite in winter. I knew it would be beautiful and importantly, mostly empty. Few people spoiling the quiet.
I was worried about the mountainous drive and the possibility of snow, but have learned a few things. Though the park site says chains are required until April, it might not [...]
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