Trying out a new city, trying out a new blog.

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Also, not normally a sunset person, but the one last night was top-notch.


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I get along with my coworkers, who are both over 60, almost too well, which makes me really think I'm a 60-year-old woman in disguise, or at least in training. Sometimes instead of working we make coffee and talk about our gardens, or, you know, baked goods. Awesome. Anyway, the other day Marsha had a bunch of blue wine bottles left over from a ( Read more... )

This is one of the first interviews I did, and it still gets me every time I read it.

There was a swimming pool in our neighborhood. I stood at the fence and watched the white kids swim. We had to swim in ditches or in the pond. That pool water was so blue, and that was very powerful. Where did they get that blue water? We didn’t know it was just ( Read more... )

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I registered for graduate school. If I follow through, I'll be taking classes in museums such as this place, where a full-size mother brontosaurus can whisper test answers to me through the ceiling.


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I thought walking around Obama's Secret Service to get into work was entertaining enough, but then he went to Prairie Lights and bought a Star Wars book for the press secretary's kid. Awesome.


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Where's your green? People always ask. Do I really need it? I say. I mean, come on.I am a big hypocrite on St. Patrick's Day, and kind of a dick (girls can be dicks). I never remember what day it is or who St. Patrick was. It's been a few years since we've boiled cabbage and corned beef on the 17th of March. And yet the day, somehow, rightfully ( Read more... )