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The Manny Diaries, Part Nine: Conspiracy Theories
Perseverate: To repeat something insistently or redundantly; to repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus.Conspiracy theory: An explanatory proposition that accuses two or more...
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Spying on My Son at Recess
Today I went on a little run to blow off some steam, in the middle of the day. And my normal route took me past the elementary school playground where Eldest Son and Middle Son attend school. But lo,...
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The Manny Diaries, Part Ten: Tequila Farming!
I never thought I'd say this, but lately I have been finding Manny something resembling...invaluable. Every single day, he comes downstairs quite early, before we are even awake, and cuts up a plateful...
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The Waters of the Afterlife Are Filled with Man-Killing Fish
I recently had a conversation with Littlest Son, now age 6. Somehow we got on to speaking of the meaning of life, and where he might have been before he graced us with his presence on the planet.Mom:...
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The Manny Diaries, Chapter Eleven: Mexico is for Lovers
On Sunday (6/15/14), if all goes according to plan, the Manny will be winging his way toward his new home in sunny Mexico. The odds that he actually makes it onto the plane grow increasingly slimmer,...
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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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