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Guest Post Monday – Ode to a Black Cooking Pot

My parents accumulate people.  There were always extras around our home, for Thanksgiving, for Christmas, for Sunday afternoon generic communing.  Mom and Dad downsized about ten years ago.  Fortunately, they didn’t downsize their desire to informally adopt a lovely variety … Continue reading

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Fresher Than

I met Mademoiselle in the fall of 1993.  We were sudden housemates at the rundown Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity.  Please understand that Phi Rho wasn’t a frat in the Animal House sense of the word.  No goldfish, no hazing, … Continue reading

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Oberlin College Reunion Report 2016

It’s hard to explain my love for the physical place of Oberlin: a flat landscape, crosshatched streets, the howling winds of winter and sweltering humidity of summer.  The exclusive-trying-to-be-inclusive liberal arts college and economically-depressed town attempt to negotiate a symbiotic … Continue reading

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Friday Night Fish Fry

I tried giving up sweets for Lent this year.  Christina, one of my friends, accomplished this insane task a couple years ago.  She felt great.  I figured why not give it a go – not for any religious reason, but … Continue reading

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Spousal Rejection

I wrote a 900 word post this morning, a (hopefully) thought-provoking piece about the perils of our criminal justice system for those living with mental illness.  The whole thing was set within the context of a friend’s current incarceration.  Ace … Continue reading

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Fellowship of the Ring: The Outlander Wedding

During the ’90s I made several trips to Phoenix.  I can’t recommend this city to anyone with a propensity for lung disease.  To land at the airport, one must fly through a smog pancake.  Oxygen mask, indeed. Jess and I … Continue reading

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