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I like the word “recommendation.” Aside from the fact that I feel a pang of anxiety when I have to spell it (which is frequently when you happen to…
Unlike in high school where the “cool” kids all wore one type of outfit, sat at one specific lunch table, and thought with one collective brain, as I grow older…
Top two highlights of my life so far: my wedding and birth of child. (Notice I specifically did not write “childbirth.” No. {Shudder.} That cannot be considered a…
Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal…
“Simplify, simplify, simplify,” penned the great Ralph Waldo Emerson in Walden. It’s taken me four years of re-reading his book to get the irony behind that phrase: If living what…