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So Much Awesome In One Place
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Skip to main content. Contact a Front Pager. Artists In Our Midst. Authors In Our Midst. So Much Awesome In One Place. On May 25, 2011. It has 660 Comments. I’m going through the user contributions to the thread last night. About Sarah Palin’s new movie about herself and the potential titles, and there is so much win I can’t stop laughing. So many are good, but here are some favorites:. From Here to Inanity. The Scum Also Rises. Lost in Translation II. We’re Just Not That Into You. The Devil Wears Mukluks.
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ShrinkRap: Castles
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Life, Love, and Lunacy in the Big Easy. Monday, March 11, 2013. Ya'll know she was born 3 weeks after Katrina, right? Look at those cheeks. I could have chosen not to work, but as a social worker felt compelled to do so, given the enormous psychosocial tasks that lie ahead. Employing a nanny was neither cost-effective or aligned with what we wanted for our daughter- we wanted a community, wanted her in the company of other Katrina babies. Also, selfishly, I was hungry for company and community. Just afte...
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ShrinkRap: August 2014
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Life, Love, and Lunacy in the Big Easy. Monday, August 4, 2014. To Evan, On Your 6th Birthday. Everything was the best thing ever. And so I worry. Perhaps excessively. Okay, definitely excessively, but I try hard not to let it effect my behavior and choices. Right now, and for the last several months, you have a small red mark on your cheek, right under your right eye (a broken capillary, the scourge of the fair-skinned), and your peers often comment on it: "What'd you do to your eye? All my love, always-.
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ShrinkRap: October 2012
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Life, Love, and Lunacy in the Big Easy. Saturday, October 20, 2012. To love life, to love it even. When you have no stomach for it. And everything you've held dear. Crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,. Your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat. Thickening the air, heavy as water. More fit for gills than lungs;. When grief weights you like your own flesh. Only more of it, an obesity of grief,. How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face.
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Sideways Mencken: Pedestrians
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We've been in California for a couple of months now. I love the weather. Today, February 2nd, I spoke with my friend Alex by phone. Alex was walking home in Chicago where the high today was 17 F. 17 and windy, which translates to a windchill factor of Nicole Kidman. Meanwhile, I was sitting at an outdoor cafe in a t-shirt. Gazing up at a palm tree. I could have been drinking a Frappuccino. I wasn't because I'm not a girl, but I could have been. So, the California weather? Cattle. But dumber. But here in ...
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ShrinkRap: To Sydney, On Your 8th Birthday
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Life, Love, and Lunacy in the Big Easy. Tuesday, September 24, 2013. To Sydney, On Your 8th Birthday. My sweet girl,. You are eight years old today. This morning you corrected me when I told you that I couldn't believe you were eight; you said "I'm not quite. Questions, you offer details about yourself and your life, you express your thoughts and opinions. It's hard to explain how extraordinary this is to witness; it's like the unfolding of your true self, the person who is discerning and inquisitive...
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ShrinkRap: February 2013
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Life, Love, and Lunacy in the Big Easy. Thursday, February 14, 2013. 5 years ago, on Valentine's Day, my Uncle Jimmy died. He wasn't old, or sick; he choked on a sandwich in the bathroom of the sheltered workshop where he spent his weekdays. His life started out difficult and ended sadly, but these days, on February 14th, when I think of him and his legacy, I'm reminded of the absolute power of pure and simple love. Both of my mother's brothers were born with Fragile X syndrome. Thursday, February 7, 2013.
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ShrinkRap: September 2012
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Life, Love, and Lunacy in the Big Easy. Monday, September 24, 2012. To Sydney, on your 7th Birthday. Last night you had your birthday party at The Bead Shop; ten of your friends came and made beautiful jewelry and listened to the “pop music” playlist you created on your iPod. You love creating (and wearing) jewelry, and you’ve wanted to have this party since you turned 5—but since the shop has an age threshold for birthday parties, you had to wait two years. It did not disappoint. You held eye contact at...
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ShrinkRap: November 2012
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Life, Love, and Lunacy in the Big Easy. Sunday, November 25, 2012. As it gets cold and gray falls from the air. That you will go on. The same tune no matter where. You find yourself—. Inside the dome of dark. Or under the cracking white. Of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow. Tonight as it gets cold. What you know which is nothing. But the tune your bones play. As you keep going. And you will be able. For once to lie down under the small fire. And if it happens that you cannot. Go on or turn back.
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ShrinkRap: To Evan, On Your 6th Birthday
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Life, Love, and Lunacy in the Big Easy. Monday, August 4, 2014. To Evan, On Your 6th Birthday. Everything was the best thing ever. And so I worry. Perhaps excessively. Okay, definitely excessively, but I try hard not to let it effect my behavior and choices. Right now, and for the last several months, you have a small red mark on your cheek, right under your right eye (a broken capillary, the scourge of the fair-skinned), and your peers often comment on it: "What'd you do to your eye? All my love, always-.
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