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Fun with Botox

Last Friday at Lynn and Pete’s for dinner, we were talking about the shots I’d had earlier that week and Anya asked what kind of shots. I said, “Botox.” Her eyes got very big and she looked concerned. She looked … Continue reading

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Lisa

Today would have been my cousin Lisa’s birthday. In her honor I am dancing around the kitchen, baking a cake. In her honor I’m singing tunelessly at the top of my lungs. In her honor, I’m wearing my rattiest jeans … Continue reading

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Botox

I do not have lines on my forehead. I did not have them earlier today, either, because I am not a frowner or a squinter. My mother spent the first 18 years of my life saying, “Don’t squint!” or “Stop … Continue reading

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Habits

Once you get in the habit of running your dishwasher every night and emptying it first thing in the morning, you feel a little whack if you skip a day. That is all.

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Gun control

I don’t really want to talk about this, but it appears I’m going to have to or I’m just going to bust. It is shockingly easy to buy a gun in Georgia. You have to go through the NICS (National … Continue reading

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Money talks

That money talks, I’ll not deny, I heard it once, it said “goodbye.” Money is not a big deal to me, insofar as I don’t measure my worth or anyone else’s by how much of it they have, and I … Continue reading

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Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the future

I don’t care for mediums and middles, never have, so I guess in that regard 2012 was a winner. I went to three funerals, and there were three more I should have gone to. I went to a wedding. One … Continue reading

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A funny grandmother story

Yesterday was the anniversary of my grandmother’s death.  I was tight with my grandmother, so it’s always a sad day for me. My grandmother was, hands-down, the best person I have ever known. But what a lot of people don’t … Continue reading

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Gun control

Last week, twenty children were gunned down at school, where they should have been safer than anywhere besides in their own homes. Now we have to talk about gun control. Again. What does gun control mean to you? What do … Continue reading

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Conversation with my brother

Only a very few people will know why this is funny, but I’d like to save it for posterity: I love you Lee county Pizza Hut….   Susan : Another successful pan pizza?     Steven : It’s the breaded honey BBQ … Continue reading

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