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I am my favorite philosopher

Electric Cooking

I hate it.  Pure and simple.  I’ve heard that it just depends on what you grew up with.  I suppose, but most people I know who are into cooking are gas people and detest electric stoves.  My adjective for electric … Continue reading

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So Very L.A.

Yesterday I was hand sewing the binding of the quilt I started last summer for a bride. She is now pregnant, I figured I’d better get it done before the baby shower this weekend.   I was sitting in front … Continue reading

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I Need Some Sleep and Other Olympic Reflections

Every Olympics season it’s the same thing.  I am up until midnight for two weeks straight, glued to  prime time coverage, suddenly an expert judge,  critiquing gymnastics and diving;  nonchalantly assuming the USA will dominate in swimming;  watching beach volleyball … Continue reading

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My Blue Whale

It was around 1977-78, I was living in the Hudson Valley in New York in a bad relationship.  The man in question was at work one Saturday and I was reading an article in The New Yorker that captured my … Continue reading

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Lessons on Procrastination

So I added another app along with the Lickety Split – it’s one of many time keeping type apps out there.  It have learned a lot over the past 24 hours about my difficulties staying focused.  So I set a … Continue reading

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Best App Ever for Procrastinators!

My sister who, with her husband, is in the interesting position of caring for  six year old and  four year old grandchildren turned me on to the most amazing app ever.  It’s called Lickety Split and it is advertised for … Continue reading

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Mission Control to Cyberspace Friends…We Have a Problem

Mission Control here.  I’m reaching out to all you friends in cyberspace.   I sit  here on a Friday night in SoCal; the visitors of the last week and a half have all departed.  And I’m feeling lonely and sad. … Continue reading

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Dave

The first time I met Dave was at a school auction.  He practically knocked me over on the dance floor.  For ever after I considered him an asshole.  Years later and through a series of this n that, Al ended … Continue reading

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Pet Peeve – Quiet Please

Anyone who has gone to any kind of civil performance – ballet, opera, drama – within the last ten years knows where I’m going already.  The other night I went to a performance of Pageant of the Masters in Laguna … Continue reading

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30 Years Ago Today…

How can it be, really, that Al and I were married thirty years ago?   Getting married and then looking back at it thirty years later is surreal.  It’s like I can remember the wedding day – how trim I … Continue reading

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