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Coloring

Friday, April 25, 2008

I spent some time with oil pastels this evening, just laying down color in washes and simple shapes. My history with art is tangled and tortuous; the goal, when I was younger, was to become a comic book artist. For many reasons, that never came to fruition. Although I didn’t definitively lose interest, there was [...]

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Too much of everything

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Last night I went out to dinner with friends. The pizza was great, the restaurant was too loud and the quarters too close. I could barely hear what the people next to me were saying. Afterward, we went back to the friends’ apartment to meet the new puppy. They put in The Gods Must be [...]

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In just-spring

Sunday, April 6, 2008

My sister’s boyfriend treats me with more respect than any of my own boyfriends ever have. I hope I can find someone like that, someday.
We sat around last night with martinis and cigars, enjoying one of the first warm evenings of the year, they not long back from house shopping and I after a day [...]

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Conquering the Fear of Talking on the Telephone

Thursday, April 3, 2008

A while back, I developed a fear of talking on telephones. I carried the fear for about ten years, and I learned a lot of ways around having to make telephone calls. Now, I am pleased to say I have mostly conquered that fear. Since I have encountered a lot of people with a similar fear (or full-blown phobia), I’d like to pass along some of the ways in which I learned to comfortably converse on the telephone with friends and strangers.

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The First Post

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

There is no longer any excuse not to write, since I have been receiving guidance from a few valued friends (thank you Andrew, Ian). For a long time, I have wanted an outlet with which to express the ideas rolling ’round in my head, because they will otherwise continue circulating, without closure. Putting them down [...]

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