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Friday, July 8, 2016

An inappropriate observation for such a sad week

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I never noticed how much I leaned on my elbows until they were covered with massage oil. That said, I still think a midday massage was a go...
Friday, July 1, 2016

Two lists inspired by my last post

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Books we've read in my feminist book club in approximate descending order of how much I liked them: My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki  ...
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What did YOU mean?

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I'm in a feminist book club. It's amazing and I recommend it. Next month, it's my turn to suggest books for us to choose from....
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Monday, June 20, 2016

On a roll

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I decided that if I'm going to start writing here again, and maybe I am, I should update what's in the blogroll for the first time i...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Just a Second

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There have never been a lot of people reading CMC, and when I go nearly a year without posting, there are fewer. But I am not quite ready t...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

How My Weekend Was, An Open Letter

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Dear well-meaning and generally kind and supportive straight coworkers, I am writing this once so I don't explode, because I know you ...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Things that would not happen in Washington (but would happen in a movie)

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Hello, friends. It's been waaaaay too long. Maybe some of you are still using RSS feeds, and will see this. I've been feeling pull...
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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Parodoxy

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Sorry it's been so long again, folks. Been thinking about you, and this space, lots. We should talk about what we're going to do aro...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Metaphorical malpractice

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This evening, I'm keeping a friend company in the hospital. He's fine. But I just overheard a healthcare professional saying t...
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Thursday, March 26, 2015

UPDATE: AIM high

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Just got the following email from my Rock Star Friend: Remember the cute dating blogger that I saw in an elevator many many years ago and...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

One true correct

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Today on Facebook, a friend of mine posted, "Every religion thinks it's the one true correct religion. Assuming there is one, they ...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

I'd wave a white flag, but you'd never see it

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Sorry I keep talking about the weather. This winter is KILLING me; it's led to car issues and house issues and travel issues and a wee...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Cold snap

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This morning I brought RI to work because otherwise, he'd have had to walk, and it was -11° outside, and that is unreasonable. But it st...
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Monday, February 16, 2015

City Mouth Country

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Things I got used to in 8 years of city life that continue to disappoint me after SO MANY years not in the city: restaurants that are open o...
Friday, February 13, 2015

How's the weather up there?

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Woman leaving a building ahead of me yesterday, brightly: Oh, look! It's snowing! We needed it, really.
Friday, February 6, 2015

Genderalized Anxiety

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To discuss, with as much or as little anonymity as you choose: What is your gender? An essay on that topic was assigned someone I know as...
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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Mercurial

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So it's been more than a month. Sorry. Also, although I haven't had a lot of Big Stories or even Deep Thoughts I wanted to share h...
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Monday, December 15, 2014

Sentence of the Day, Social Justice Edition

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"If you're not at the table, you're on the menu." — A friend of mine in her role as a panelist at a social justice forum y...
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Monday, December 8, 2014

Shaming Santa

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WARNING: This post is inappropriate for younger readers. Younger readers, if you read past this point, you may find things you do not want t...
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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Errand Grrrl

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We haven't talked a lot about the advantages of living in a small city , over the other kinds of places I've lived in: small towns ...
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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Mirror, mirror

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This may feel duplicative; it's for sure related to my last post. But here's the thing about these gratitude posts: Increasingly, pu...
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Fair enough

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"It's not fair," we whine, and if we have a certain kind of parent, they reply, "life isn't fair." And they...

Six at one blow

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I've already written the last two posts of the month, and have decided to give up on this particular month of gratitude at midnight, so ...

Power

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The day before Thanksgiving, we hand a biggish snowstorm up here — big enough that my boss sent me home at noon. I lost electricity for a ...

This must be the place

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Last night, the local one-screen theater showed Stop Making Sense ,  a thirty-year-old concert movie I went to with a bunch of younger-than-...

LOL

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The beauty of life on the internet is that there are nearly limitless jokes at one's disposal, including ones that are silly, funny, ino...

None of your business

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So, long-time readers (it's been more than seven years now, if you can believe it) will recall that I started this blog largely to keep ...
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Luck of the drawing

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Last Sunday, RI and I met April and her family for a trip to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art . I guess this is a short post; ju...
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I can breathe in a small town

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So about that fundraiser last Saturday. It was for Green Mountain Crossroads , which is an organization I love and support, and which orga...
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Monday, November 24, 2014

Ice box, baby

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This weekend, I had a little fundraiser at my house for a cause that's important to me. You'll hear more about that (and about some ...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Quiet... too quiet.

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Today's guest post is from my friend Calvin , who usually blogs in poetry and who tried (as I did) to use a bunch of hovertext in this p...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

A Thousand Points of Lights & Sirens

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Today's guest post is by my friend Mike, who is very good to have around in an emergency, whether grammatical or medical. Also, if you...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Boy howdy

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Yesterday marked 18 months since RI and I first started dating. Our anniversary gift to you: pronouns. He, him, his. I haven't used ...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

Even in Australia

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This morning I fell down some slick stairs with a bunch of things and left my wallet and my book for book club at RI's house and my foot...
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Friday, November 14, 2014

I never promised you

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Someone shared a thing on the internet today that said "REDHEADS are God's way of giving the world ROSES." My reaction to th...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Getting mugged

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Do you even KNOW that it's possible to make really delicious brownies from scratch quickly and in the microwave and in a coffee mug? S...

Namaste

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Today's guest post is by my college roommate, April, who's way better at walking than a two-year-old. One of the sad truths that I...

Salad days

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Today was not a great day. It wasn't a horrible day, nothing went catastrophically wrong, no one was hurt. But there were obstacles an...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Peace

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This is a selfish, selfish, selfish one. I do understand the reason for the season, as it were, and I do honor veterans, for reasons both ...

Who It's About

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Today's guest post is from my good friend and occasional commenter Heidi. There's more from Heidi on Twitter: @queerminister . Anyo...
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Monday, November 10, 2014

Unexpect the Expected

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Sometimes, Netflix suggests something to me that seems racist, horribly violent in the ways I dislike, or that I will otherwise obviously ha...
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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Hear me roar

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A while back, someone I know who is definitely on the line between "acquaintance" and "friend" said she was starting a f...
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Bubble, bubble

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And already we're playing catch-up. A lot of catch-up. Last night, a friend asked about hidden talents: "What are your hidden ta...
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