Real Life

Things related to that reality thing people are always going on about.

Hear, Hear!

Quoting from this site: For reasons spelled out below, the poet Sharon Olds has declined to attend the National Book Festival in Washington, which, coincidentally or not, takes place September 24, the day of an antiwar mobilization in the capital. Olds, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award and professor of creative writing at […]

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Come Out, Come Over, Whatever

Quoting from this site: Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., abruptly resigned from Congress on Friday in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former teenage male page. Dude.  Come out, come over.  Liberals are very accepting.  We won’t bat an eye when you date men YOUR OWN AGE.  I assume (I hope) that’s why

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Only One

Tonight at group there were astronomers kindly sharing their expertise and their equipment. Kids everywhere, and Hope was the only one who managed to trip over the cord of the laptop computer linked to the really expensive telescope and nearly destroy both.  Because Hope was the only one who skipped around and around the table

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No Biting

Today was Bly’s birthday.  As part of her present, I promised not to bite my friend Thomas no matter how obnoxious he was. And I didn’t.  Not when he declared outside the restaurant Bly wanted that “this place isn’t worth a forty-five minute wait.”  Not when he told Hope to “just go” to the restroom

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Getting Ideas

When I weighed the pros and cons of inviting Bly to share a home with me, I missed one of the most fun parts. Back when Mary was my roommate, it was kind of annoying.  Mary had a hormonal problem that made her kind of hairy, and she was a very muscular woman anyway.  It

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Parent-Teacher Conference

I’m getting to appreciate Hope’s kindergarten teacher more every day.  That wonderful woman emailed me every day. Hope’s teacher last year was pretty good.  She never emailed, but she was careful to let my friend know what kind of day Hope had every day. This teacher has apparently been saving up problems for the conference. 

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And the Flip Side…

Quoting from this site: Wives and girlfriends of gang members in one of Colombia’s most violent cities have called a sex ban in a bid to get their men to give up the gun. You go, girls.  Peace will be breaking out all over.

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