Category Archives: Rants

Menacing Earthworks

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

I have been having the kind of week where I am…run down.  I don’t mean that in a melodramatic way — I mean that in a perfectly ordinary way.  I’m quite good at making things into existential crises.  I use … Continue reading →

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The Furniture

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

He’ll like you.  You’re a helluva piece of furniture – Charleton Heston, Soylent Green I think I am, unbeknownst to me, giving off some kind of pheromone that is attracting the North American/Northern European Preppy Manchild.  (The Europeans wouldn’t use … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Blind Dating, Take Two

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

I talked to my mother yesterday.  Well, I ranted and she listened. When are you going out on your blind date? This week.  He wanted to go out on Saturday, but I was on on-call. (I volunteer in a hospital … Continue reading →

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The Love You Take…Part II

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

For years, I didn’t think I was particularly athletic.  I went to a school that turned out Olympic athletes.  Granted, I was co-captain of a well-ranked and regarded tennis team, but this never struck as me being sporty, particularly in … Continue reading →

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I Wish

Posted on December 28, 2011 by

Sarah Rosemary at Sunny Side Up and I are hosting our own Reverb11, a series of prompts to look back on 2011 and manifest the new year.  Please check our Reverb11 pages for details, and join in! Prompt for December … Continue reading →

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Leap

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

Sarah Rosemary at Sunny Side Up and I are hosting our own Reverb11, a series of prompts to look back on 2011 and manifest the new year.  Please check our Reverb11 pages for details, and join in! Prompt for December … Continue reading →

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Clusterf*cked

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

I’d like to think of myself as a pretty level-headed, optimistic person. I surround myself with level-headed people. For instance, when Strand, Kat, and I climbed Mt. Whitney, there was one point when I looked around, and thought, Wow. I … Continue reading →

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Saturday in the Park, Redux

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

My Saturday began in such a lovely way.  I slept buried under a starchy, bleachy duvet and pillows (just how I like it).  I woke up late.  I did some work.  Then I went out to do a long run … Continue reading →

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Drydock

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

I admit there are myriad impracticalities inherent in being a kayak-owning Manhattanite. To date, this has not caused me to give up my boat. How, you ask, did I come into possession of a kayak in the first place? I … Continue reading →

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Null Set

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

Meanwhile, back in the land of malingering divorce, my ex-husband has asked me for an annulment.  This comes as no surprise to me — nor should it come as a surprise to anyone who knows either of us, since while I … Continue reading →

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