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The Manny Diaries, Chapter Twelve: Chippy and the Back Scratcher
He made it. The Manny made it to Mexico. He's really there, and he is really not here. I think I'm suffering from a fair amount of disbelief.There's a residual effect in the air, like he left some...
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The Manny Diaries, Chapter 13: I Found My Smile...in Two Gallons of Mezcal
"Miss Jennifer! Miss Jennifer! I'm going to buy ten chickens tomorrow!"Such were some of the first words that Manny spoke when he finally reached me by phone from his new home in Oaxaca, Mexico. And...
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Art and Love Therapy for Evil Little Boys
Since our return from NH two weeks ago, my three boys have been on the verge of fratricide. At summer camp, they were all in separate cabins and left to torment only those in their own age bracket. And...
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10 Ways in Which I Have Ruined My Sons' Lives (Irreparably. With flawed...
I have ruined my sons' lives completely and forever and here is proof.1. I made my six-year-old take a shower. Yes, I actually made him take a shower. (He didn't want a bath, either.) Direct quote:...
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The Manny Diaries, Chapter Fourteen: Someone Whacked Me on the Head and Stole...
The Manny has had a spate of bad luck lately, but I want to reassure all his fans that he is absolutely fine, despite the rather ominous tone of this post's title. If I were more verbose, the title of...
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The Great Shopping Cart Massacre
I used to spend a fair amount of my time stalking shopping carts and photographing them. (I intended to say 100 percent of my time, but that sounded weird so I edited it.)Winner of "Best in Show" at...
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The April Fool's Day Prank I Pulled on My Mom
My mom has a habit of collecting newspaper clippings about awful tragedies and worrisome things that her children need to know about, putting them in envelopes, and mailing them off to us. Over the...
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The Manny Diaries, Chapter Fifteen: The Pushing of the Swing
“in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling...
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Anonymous Letters and Anonymous Turds
I haven't posted here since the demise of the Manny. Nor have I written very much at all, despite the desperate pleading from my legions of fans for the sequel to my novel, The Hundred: Book Two. It's...
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Fibromyalgia: This Is Who I Am
I hurt. I hurt like a bird brought down from flight, a tree limb weighted by ice, a shuddering bolt of metal in a groove. There were times I ran in the sun. I have swum across lakes. I have carried...
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Deep Dive: Underwater Therapy for Fibromyalgia
If you have Fibromyalgia, you've probably been told that swimming is one of the best forms of physical therapy to relieve the pain. It's absolutely true. Per my doctor's recommendation, I try to swim...
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The Party Pony Officially Endorses Hillary Clinton for President of the...
As has been made abundantly clear via my social media messages, I do not care for Mr. Donald Trump aka DRUMPF. But rather than continuing to belabor the fact that Trump is a misogynistic, racist,...
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The Fox and the Rabbit: What Does Fibromyalgia Feel Like?
What does having Fibromyalgia feel like? I've read numerous descriptions and, although there are definite themes shared among us, every person's experience is unique. I tried to find a blog post that...
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The Fibromyalgia Autobiography: We Are the Brave
I don’t know what to do or even how to write. The pain is so bad that it permeates every second of every day; I get no respite. If I thoroughly distract myself with something consuming, such as drawing...
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6 Horrifying Attacks on America! Unreported by Dishonest Fake News Mainstream...
Now revealed! Horrifying attacks on U.S. soil, unreported and disregarded by the dishonest and failing fake news mainstream media! We now honor these terrible tragedies and mourn the victims. May they...
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The Things We Remember, for Tamar Kitzmiller (1954-2017)
Do you remember the time, Tamar, that we hiked that wild mountain in Vermont, so intent on our gossiping that we missed the trail junction and continued for a full mile down the wrong trail? We...
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Dear President Trump, I Demand My Pony
Dear President Trump,You may not remember me, but we met at one of your rallies. I approached you and expressed my need for a pony. I said: "I am one of your sorrowful and fragrant forgotten people,...
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Netflix Presents: The Caged Orangutan
I've been watching The Crown on Netflix. Although the Queen is rather priggish and tweedy, the series has many merits. Among them are the chance to practice one's parade wave (it's really quite...
View ArticleThe Same 10 Questions I Always Ask Myself, November 2018
It's been a dreadful long time since I posted on this blog, so I decided to resurrect this recurring feature from the distant past.1. What are you wearing?A "schwag" fleece given to me by a former...
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I Made a Pet Out of My House Mouse
I now have a pet mouse. In the absence of any other pets, I have decided to adopt the only other female in the household, who happens to be vermin. In fact, I am not sure "she" is even a female. It has...
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Really, Really Bad Valentine's Day Gifts for 2019
First of all, I'm not a fan of Valentine's Day. It's a Hallmark holiday designed to psychically wound the single, the lovelorn, the dumped, and all the depressed losers who are clearly unworthy of...
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I'm Turning My Tiny Greenhouse Into a She-Shed!
So, we rent a house in our charming Connecticut town. It's a very sweet house, if a bit cozy."Cozy" is ALWAYS a euphemism for "this house is so damned small that I can feel your hot breath on my neck...
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8 Advertisements We Really Need to See During the Pandemic
Why let the pandemic stand in the way of a great advertising campaign? "Never Waste a Crisis," the new catch phrase of a Very Large Company we know (and which is always delivered in a bubbly, buoyant...
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Get Stuffed! Dreadful Valentine's Day Gifts for 2021
Fair lovers of Valentine's Day! This year, I have promised and delivered the usual panoply of hideous hounds, sloths, apes, and bears gleaned from the local markets.My key question is: If you purchase...
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