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Monday, December 8th, 2008I’m on my way up. And there are signs—if I look for them, listen to them, use all my senses to detect them—if I don’t, then it’s the lurch in the stomach on the down curve of the rollercoaster that’s often the first sign.
If I’m really paying attention, then I hear it when my [...]
Raking leaves
Monday, November 24th, 2008Some memories are like early fall’s leaves. Red, coral, gold. Yellow dappled with green. Round, smooth- edged birch leaves, almost lemony-yellow. Jagged-edged, tough golden beech leaves, veined and oblong. The classic, red/gold/orange sugar maples, the kind of fall leaf children draw when asked to draw the Platonic Fall Leaf. Blood red, delicate Japanese maple leaves, [...]
Better Living Through Chemistry
Monday, November 10th, 2008It sounds like one of those 1950 and 1960s era filmstrips we thirty and forty somethings like to mock, the irony of those pitifully naïve exhortations of the wonders of science now apparent– global warming, polluted oceans and seafood, tainted freshwater and food supplies, obesity, etc. The list is endless. But modern medicine, [...]
Push
Monday, October 20th, 2008It’s a physical pushing sensation inside your brain. From the very back of your head—the urgency to do something, FAST. Blow through thirty crossword puzzles in an hour. Read the same three books over and over, almost able to read it by memory aloud, you’ve memorized the words by now. Read every single thing on [...]
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