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Aging in America
I fucked up my knee a few years back; you can google ruptured quadriceps tendon for the gory details. Full recovery was never on the table, but it’s fine most of the time. Though I am better off on flat sidewalks than lawns or hills or unpaved paths. Today I…
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Blogging A to Z Recap
Last month, I participated in the Blogging A to Z challenge. It was a last minute decision – literally made the day the challenge began. I had created a WordPress account years ago, and did nothing with it, so the first challenge, of course, was retrieving the password. I have to confess,…
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Z is for (Tappan) Zee
I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is Z. So this is it. On a whim, on the day the thing started, I signed on to do this A to Z Blogging Challenge. For the month of April, several thousand people wrote a blog entry every day (not counting Sundays),…
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Y is for Yogurt (Frozen)
I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is Y. I just scarfed down some Ben & Jerry’s Half-Baked Froyo, which, according to the container, is “Chocolate & Vanilla Low Fat Frozen Yogurts mixed with Gobs of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough & Fudge Brownies.” The frozen yogurt is considerably lower in…
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X is for Xenophobia
I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is X. Xenophobia: n. intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries. There’s a lot of that going around these days and I just don’t get it. I guess that’s where the irrational part of the definition above comes…
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V is for Victim
I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is V. According to this article in the NY Times, NC Governor Pat McCrory believes that the entire transgender bathroom debacle was actually orchestrated by Democrats and the Human Rights Campaign in order to give Democrats the edge in the upcoming Governor’s…
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U is for Unmitigated Disasters
I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is U. I tried to make this: for dinner last night. It didn’t go well. I wish I’d taken a picture, it looked so awful. I don’t have the right kind of pan and I had the heat up too high, so the water…
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T is for Tempora Mutantur
I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is T. Tempora mutantur is a Latin adage that dates to the Protestant Reformation. It translates to times change. A longer version is Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Times change and we change with them. 500-ish years ago, the Catholic Church…
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