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It’s really time for me to make that last post NOT my last post, wouldn’t you agree? Thank you to everyone who sent me a message or left a comment. I honestly didn’t know I had so many readers! And that everyone is so caring! Thank you. I really am doing fine now. It was […]

It’s been a rough week.
Tuesday night, I had really bad cramping, but still not a lot of blood. Wednesday night, I officially miscarried. I had no idea it would be so bad. You read online that a miscarriage usually consists of “cramping worse than your period.” What they don’t say is that you have full-on […]

is what happens when you’re not knocked up anymore.
Yes, dear reader, I have miscarried. Or rather, I’m still in the process of miscarrying. It seems to be an incredibly drawn out. process for me. I’ve been spotting on and off since Saturday–not much, but enough. My hcg levels are down from 8500 to 100 and […]

Does this woman have any clue what she’s talking about?

But this is AWESOME.

None of this has seemed quite real to Steve because I didn’t have the doctor’s word that I’m pregnant–but I went in last Thursday, and it’s now official. I am about 8 weeks, not 10; the online calculators count from the date of your last period rather than the date of conception. The only worrying […]

Dear Friends:
We may have thought we wanted a woman on a national political ticket, but the joke has really been on us, hasn’t it? Are you as sick in your stomach as I am at the thought of Sarah Palin as Vice President of the United States?
Since Palin gave her speech accepting the Republican nomination […]

Relaxing social strictures and therapy are doing wonders for us as a society–but I sometimes wonder if they’re ruining the contemporary novel. I mean, what is there to fight about these days? What provides the tension? Nothing. Instead, the focus turns inward; the protagonist fights against himself (or discovers something, or whatever). And if it’s […]

Particularly one who is ready to use her pregnant teenage daughter as a puck? As a feminist, Sarah Palin’s nomination is an insult.

Oh my gosh, it’s fast. Much faster than IE7. Don’t know about IE8, haven’t downloaded it yet.

Where has this stuff been? I’m not a milk drinker, but oh my god, I can’t get enough of it.

“So,” my mother said with a goofy grin on her face when she learned I was pregnant, “are you and Steve finally going to get married?”
“Probably not,” I said, blithely dashing her hopes to the ground. “There’s really no point.”
She was silent for a moment and then started trotting out various arguments about why we […]

It’s early days yet–I’m only about 8 weeks pregnant, but I’m not very good about not telling anyone, so why not just tell the world? (Helloooo …..) I never thought I wanted kids, but back in April had a chemical pregnancy–and then we decided why not? From then to now, I’ve been ambivalent about it, […]

It used to be that you closed the cover on an issue of the New Yorker and felt like you just got a mini liberal arts education. There was some science, some sociology, some law, some literature–all dosed with a goodly amount of philosophy and analysis in long, thoughtful, well-written articles.
I stopped taking it a […]

Blog? What blog? Yes, I’m still alive. Just lazy. But I liked this meme, lifted from A Was Alarmed.
1. My uncle once: marketed an artifical sweetener called called “Sweet and Lite” in India. It came in a pink package and was noxious.
2. Never in my life: have I distilled alcohol. I have, however, distilled three […]

Not nearly as heartwrenching as Henry Hoover’s but interesting because it conjures up an era. I have NO idea who this is.
Addressed to:
Mrs. Sarah Hunt
Springfield
Clark County
State of Ohio
Cincinatti August 17th 1829
My Dear Sister
I am just getting so that I can enjoy a little comfort in breathing & move about, yet I am in some pain […]

I went to visit my mother about a month ago. She handed over a whole pile of old letters she had found–dating from about 1825 to 1870–which I am slowly transcribing. Alas, some are just tiny scraps of papers, but there are some real gems in there. This is really exciting for me, because it’s […]

Yesterday, I ran up to the house for 20 minutes. Came back, door had been broken into and laptops stolen.
Yes, these are adventures in shackitude.

I am deleting my Facebook account.
There’s been a lot lot of noise about privacy and what have you on the Web, and I really don’t feel the need to add anything to what anyone else says. They’re a company; they sell information–and that’s life in the 21st century. The myth of privacy at this point […]

I got cocky.
For a couple of months, it’s seemed like the area over my eyebrows is a little lighter again, and I have studiously been avoiding it–but dreading getting tan in the summer all the same. Now it looks like it may be getting worse, and to make matters even more distressing, there’s some hyperpigmentation […]

Now doesn’t THAT sound all art gallery-ish.
I have a ton of unframed prints I haven’t posted up at the house. Those that come with frames, I lug down to the shack and put up on the many bare walls. Which is where I am, and where my digital camera is, so ….
Eichii Kotozuka. I’m not […]