They’ve been around since the Early Eocene period which, for those of you who didn’t just look it up on Wikipedia as I did, was 54 to 48 million years ago. If I had my way, they’d be long gone if not from the planet, then at least from my life. I’ve dedicated many an angry word to the topic of squirrels here on Bloggy, but not recently. Well, here I go again. I would […]
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Dental Waterboarding
How did it get to be the end of May already? I want the world to know that my beloved Lulu turned 32 two days ago! And in two days, it’s my own Big Day. I remember working on a national radio series about American holiday traditions with my buddy Adi many years ago. On my 35th birthday, when Molly was four days old, I got a call from the accounting office at the Corporation […]
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Hello, strangers. It’s been ages. What’s new? Well, I am more frightened than ever about the future of this country: the perpetuation of Drumpf’s Big Lie and the millions of dangerous white fools, many in high places, who buy into it; gun violence; the delusional wing of Republicans in general; assaults against Black Americans and Asian Americans, not to mention rampant xenophobia in general; continuing tragedy at our border; the social and economic impact of […]
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I wrote in my last post about Ma having partially lost her vision, leaving her unable to read or see details. Great news: little by little her sight has been returning. It’s a slow path, but now she can process most of my email messages when I send them in a giant bolded font. She can’t read this, though. Back in March, many long months ago, I used to say, “I don’t care if I […]
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