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Friday, February 3, 2023

Book Review, etc: Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

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This post got long because I had a surprising number of thoughts. Since I can't imagine anyone is all that interested, I decided not to ...
Friday, January 20, 2023

7ToF: crone-y

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1. Everyone knows about dry, chapped lips in the winter, but a few years ago my lips were so unusually dry and cracked that it was painful. ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

another grumpy old person unpopular opinion. I seem to have a lot of them these days.

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One of the reasons I was so underwhelmed by Top Gun Maverick  when I saw it last summer is that I'm so tired of mavericks. The basic myt...
Friday, January 6, 2023

My So-Called Reading Life: 2022 Wrap-up

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I read 92 books during 2022, which will seem like a lot to some of you, and laughably few to others. That's about the same as last year,...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

A Grumpy Old Person and her Unpopular Opinion about the Movies

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I think you can tell that time has truly passed you by--that you have, in fact, become irrelevant-- when the big blockbuster moments that ar...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

the sadly all-too-common tale of my social media woes

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My social media starter drug was Facebook. I was an early adopter. I don't remember exactly when I joined, but it was shortly after they...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Another book review: Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny

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I listened to an interview with an artist last week who said that the best, most interesting art is art that surprises him. I don’t know e...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Here's something you did not expect me to post about today: LIV Golf

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I live with golfers. On my own, I would probably pay exactly zero attention to golf, but like most parents, I become interested in what my f...
Friday, August 26, 2022

To list or not to list

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Oddly, the closer the wedding gets, the better I feel about it. I'm still anxious, and there are about a gazillion details to attend to,...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Thoughts on Reading The Road

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I've been meaning to read The Road (Cormac McCarthy, 2007) for years, but had been put off by other readers' comments that it was u...