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Blue

The family that is sick together, sticks together.

Someday, I will lovingly needlepoint this sentiment and hang it over hearth. Little hypodermic needles, Amoxicillin bottles, and cans of Lysol will be immortalized by the redundant dainty X. It shouldn’t be difficult to paint a picture of Streptococcus with varying shades of green thread. I […]

Gutsy

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. * Charles Peguy

I know which writer I’d rather be. My overcoat pockets are gorged with linty tissues, waxy coins, and lip balm anyway.

Treasure

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. ~Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989

The perfect way to score well in a blogging award contest is to cease writing for […]