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I’ve been a Wisconsin Book Festival devotee in the last 24 hours, and it’s been great!

Well, great and unsettling. Saw Gwynne Dyer talk about Climate Wars at the Central Library last night, and all of the scenarios presented were apocalyptic. In the last five years, the militaries of most developed countries have been planning for what happens when ( Read more... )

Even though surviving for one half hour during a power outage in a house as the only adult among three under-3-year-olds wasn’t on my bucket list, it is still something I can say I have done.

It sounds worse than it actually was. There was little crying. When a thunder clap hit right over the house and the TV shut off, I let out and involuntary ( Read more... )

I am pretty sure this will be my cause of death.


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I picked perhaps the worst (best?) time of my life so far to read Vindication of Love by Cristina Nehring, considering her position is that romance is dead in the modern world-“romance” being distance, pain, humiliation, sexual frustration, sexy fights, etc.-and that we need to reclaim it. Her examples of real romance include adolescent folly ( ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed I was in the basement bedroom of my parents' house, entertaining friends. I don't know any of them in real life, though ( Read more... )

OK folks, it's time for The Epic PJ's Visit Post. The Cliff's Notes version: I feel revitalized, I've been traveling, and I am over-the-moon in love. My life was a puke-bag of cuteness (thanks Pen) for three weeks.


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Dear Diary,

Today Andrew, George and I took PJ to New York City. He had never been there before.

We walked across the reservoir in Central Park. The sun was setting, and to me it looked like this:

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After work today I actually started reading my collection of Van Gogh’s letters. I bought the book used four years ago, and it is a beautiful hardcover from the ’60s, but just never got around to reading it. I’ve been carrying it along with me, from apartment to apartment, dorm to home, home to efficiency, Wisconsin to NJ and back again, ad ( Read more... )