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Monthly Archives: August 2006
Three AM Phone Call
Last night my cell phone rang at 3:03 am, ripping me out of sleep. Deep, sweaty, rapid-eye-movement, body immobilized sleep. In the first second of half-wakeful awareness, I was able to identify the fact that my phone was playing my … Continue reading
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Knowing, Creating, Experiencing
This afternoon, I settled down on the living room couch with a book, prepared to spend a peaceful hour by myself, doing nothing but reading. About ten minutes into this time, my roommate walked into the room. He wasn’t whistling, … Continue reading
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Train Roundtrip
I spent 45 minutes in Washington, DC today, and four hours on a train, getting there and coming back. I went for work, to deliver a document that absolutely, positively had to be in today. People were working and rushing … Continue reading
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Young Bunny
This is the picture of my grandma Bunny that I pulled out of my aunt’s basement last Sunday. I had never seen this photo before that moment, and at first glance, I had to struggle to match up this face … Continue reading
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A font of fountain pens
I sat down at my desk tonight, intending to write a post about seeing “Little Miss Sunshine” tonight and how it made me laugh. I was then going to write about how I used to be known, during my freshman … Continue reading
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Aunt Anne and a blue-striped mixing bowl
I spent two hours with my Great-Aunt Anne yesterday afternoon. The drive from Philly to New Town Square seemed shorter than I remembered, and soon I was turning on to her street. I stopped at Wawa on my way to … Continue reading
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Homemade applesauce
Digging around my refrigerator this afternoon, I turned up five abandoned, wrinkled apples and one bruised peach with a gouge on it’s side. These half dozen pieces of fruit spoke to me, pleading to be turned into apple(peach) sauce instead … Continue reading
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Random Friday–Power in Music
Last night my sister called me three minutes after I had turned off my light to go to sleep. I had been focusing my energy on relaxing my toes when the phone rang, but happily put off that task when … Continue reading
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Scissors and Tweezers
My grandmother Tutu, the one who lived for more than 35 years in my apartment, wore false eyelashes until the day when her aging coordination stopped allowing it. She special-ordered the lashes from a beauty store in Los Angeles that … Continue reading
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Fall on the wind
Reading in Rittenhouse Square tonight, I could feel fall. During the day it is still agresssively summer, but between the hours of 8 and 9 pm, when the sky is lit with angular, streaky rays of light, and a breeze … Continue reading
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