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The boys and I, we’re scraping the bottom of the proverbial barrel. Or, to change the metaphor, we’re in the warm flat sea of the [...]
August 30, 2013
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I have a confession to make: I’m not completely out of the closet about my tattoos, specifically the ones on each forearm. There are some [...]
May 27, 2013
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My dog Stuart has low-grade bronchitis. Every so often he coughs in this croaking, old-man way, and he’s been doing it since we adopted him [...]
May 22, 2013
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It’s been a week or so since my awesome stylist relieved me of about three inches of hair, taking my ‘do from below shoulder-length [...]
May 12, 2013
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For a while in the late 90s I worked for a trade publisher in San Francisco, writing copy for a medical newsletter from my tiny cubicle on the [...]
May 10, 2013
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Mid-morning on a recent weekday and I’m in Safeway, cruising the aisles for milk, yogurt, tortillas and trying to get in and out as quickly [...]
May 6, 2013
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We’re on a major Psych kick in my household. Yes, I understand that the show is seven seasons old, but we’ve just discovered it and [...]
May 2, 2013
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I used to roller skate a bunch when I was in elementary school, fourth and fifth and sixth grade. It was the social thing to do, a Saturday [...]
April 29, 2013
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Yesterday I was driving through Berkeley with my husband and son and we stopped at the light at Shattuck and Haste. To our right, in front of the [...]
April 24, 2013
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I used to exert myself at prayer. It was exercise, like hoisting kettleballs or something, and the harder I worked, the more chance I had to make [...]
January 23, 2013