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It feels like such a tired old thing to say that the internet and social media is both a curse and a blessing.  But every day I think it’s truer.…

Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Schrodinger’s corpse. For those of you unfamiliar with Schrodinger’s cat, in a vastly oversimplified nutshell, Erwin Schrodinger was a quantum mechanist who…

I’ve always been easily startled. I think it’s a function of how deeply engrossed I get in whatever I’m doing.  I’m truly not in the room that I’m in, not…

Most of the time, I think we should tell the truth.  But not always.  And, if done correctly, I think you can lie a lot and still consider yourself an…

My husband and I were watching Mystery Science Theater 3000.  If you’ve never watched MST3k, please remedy that right away.  It’s basically stupid: the conceit is that it’s the future…

Lately, I’ve been grateful for the existence of readily available fabric. I was lying in bed, between snoozes of the alarm clock, appreciating how warm and cozy and comfortable I…

For my twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, as well as a milestone birthday for my husband that happens in the same year, I want to go to Italy and eat my way…

I’m an empty nester, but not all the way empty.  My children still come home often enough that there’s cause to keep their bedrooms available for them.  My daughter was…

I have a writing friend who, in addition to other things, is obviously highly intelligent and insightful.  She mentioned, at the last collective of writers[1] that she was working on…

I have a cross-stitched rendering of the Serenity Prayer on my wall in my office.  The Serenity Prayer, in case you don’t know goes like this: God grant me: The…