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News on the Work Front

Posted on February 3, 2011 by favoritephilosopher

This is just a little news update.  It appears that I may very well be finished with patient care by the end of the month.  I cannot believe how quickly this has all happened since the June retreat.  How I … Continue reading →

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Black Rock Addendum

Posted on February 3, 2011 by favoritephilosopher

Addendum 2/2/11:  The problem I have with poetry is that I keep it in my head and edit it all day driving around at work.  Today it has been bugging me that this didn’t have the same magical with a … Continue reading →

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Black Rock

Posted on February 2, 2011 by favoritephilosopher

Months ago I wrote Night Swimming – about skinny dipping back in New York at a place we weren’t supposed to be.  For the writing class – we have several choices of things to write each module – I chose … Continue reading →

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Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation

Posted on February 2, 2011 by favoritephilosopher

Here in San Francisco we have a thing on a local radio station called 10 at 10 – 10 Great Songs from One Great Year.  It is played every day at 10 a.m.  It’s a lot of fun, not only … Continue reading →

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The Dangers of Writing Class

Posted on January 31, 2011 by favoritephilosopher

First of all, I dropped into a Barnes and Noble today to find a nice new journal book with which to follow the directions in the class I’m taking.  To jot stuff down all the time, blah blah blah.  This … Continue reading →

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Guilty Pleasure: Ed the Dog

Posted on January 28, 2011 by favoritephilosopher

After George died, and we brought the wild man Ed the Dog home, we agreed he wouldn’t be allowed on the bed or furniture, as we had been sucked into that with George as a puppy.  Unfortunately George the Puppy … Continue reading →

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Guilty Pleasures

Posted on January 25, 2011 by favoritephilosopher

If you can all hang in there with me, I’m supposed to be writing in my “journal” regularly, and there are prompts for that in this writing class, so I figure this is as good a place as any to … Continue reading →

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Writing Class

Posted on January 23, 2011 by favoritephilosopher

Our first assignment is about imagery.  We are to take a bumper sticker we’ve seen, describe the car, the person, what we find in the car etc. etc.  Here goes, for your reading pleasure, my first (since high school) creative … Continue reading →

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Albuquerque

Posted on January 22, 2011 by favoritephilosopher

Why does it seem to happen this way?  I wait for months for a conference and on the flight to Albuquerque the unmistakable fullness of the throat combined with a bit of scratchiness heralded the start of a cold.  I … Continue reading →

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Yes, Officer

Posted on January 19, 2011 by favoritephilosopher

I have been putting off admitting this, because whenever you get a ticket from a peace officer it’s a drag.  But this…this is so…so…so…  I had my phone on speaker.  My friend  said “I can’t hear you” – so I … Continue reading →

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