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What next?
My mother has Alzheimer's and is slipping away mentally. Physically, she will probably live for another 10-15 years. I'm not well enough to go see her ( Read more... ) -
Good thing it's Halloween
Cause I'm scaring myself ( Read more... ) -
Wanted: a Butterfly Net for my Stomach
After a somewhat major breakdown last week (I spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday exhausted to the point of illness), today I managed to accomplish in a few hours what I tried to do for four full days.
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Time keeps on slippin', slippin'
Today my youngest nephew gets married.
Damn, I wish I could be happy...
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Monday Update:
Turns out I could be happy. And grateful. And moved. And amused.
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Quote of the Day
Inexpressibly apt to so much that's going on...
"To live is so startling. It leaves but little room for other occupations."
- Emily Dickinson
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Hmmm....
An interesting and useful question I found in my inbox this morning ( Read more... ) -
Truly useful bioengineering
I just read in my current What Is Enlightenment? magazine that a Danish biotechnology firm found and modified a flowering weed that helps locate land mines. It seems explosives leach nitrogen dioxide into the soil after they've been in the ground for a while. The customized plant, thale cress, grows red leaves instead of green ones when it ( Read more... ) -
The good and the bad
Good: Mac and I spent a lovely day Saturday celebrating his birthday. We went to the aquarium by way of the Elliot Bay Water Taxi from Alki. Although it was less thrilling than I imagined (at least partly because of fall weather), I've been wanting to take the water taxi ever since I learned about it last year. One thing checked off of my "stuff I ( Read more... ) -
blindsided by Esquire
This is one of the things I love about the Internet: I can wander at random for days or weeks, wading through crap, pseudo-news, commercialism, weird obsessions, and dire silliness. And yet in the midst of the morass, I find quiet gems like this ( Read more... )
