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She doesn’t get why the girl who’s been shar­ing the seat gives her a glare when she gets off the bus– at least not until the girl– pretty in a red and pur­ple vin­tage style wrap dress, zaftig though more so than Mad Men’s Christina Hen­dricks– says to the friend who’d been stand­ing next to […]

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It’s funny—she’s so used, in a way, to the feel­ings of sad­ness, depres­sion, lone­li­ness– all the other emo­tions that go along with her manic depres­sion that all of the— the bleak­ness —some­times despair and siren, clichéd thoughts of that final dark­ness. Most days she doesn’t think of them much, at least when the meds […]

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There was a long arti­cle in the NYT Mag­a­zine Sun­day about whether psy­chophar­ma­col­o­gists do their patients a dis­ser­vice because their med vis­its are short (20 min­utes) and they focus on symp­toms that can respond to drugs that those self-same doc­tors are able to pre­scribe.
And yet.  The doc­tor describes the slow creep of doubt, of the […]

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Some­times it’s just a lit­tle extra time on the meter,
that first bulb of spring show­ing yel­low or pink,
that one per­son who says, “that’s a lovely neck­lace on you.”
It makes a dif­fer­ence, that moment,
between tears and laugh­ter,
giv­ing up and car­ry­ing on.
Karma, grace, bless­ing,
call it
what­ever you like.
I know some­times I’ll for­get,
and flow­ers don’t bloom on demand,
but I can try keep […]

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So, there’s this “cook” thing in my screen name.  And I do it, some­times.  Amaz­ing, I know.
Et voila, proof of the pho­to­graphic vari­ety, because you’re all no, we do not believe it.  All you do is bitch about peo­ple with­out their receipts.  Because you’ve never lost one piece of paper­work in your life.
So.  Recipes, of a sort.
Zuc­chini, shredded […]

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There’s a long arti­cle in this weekend’s Mag­a­zine about the hardwiring/predisposition toward anx­i­ety as a psy­cho­log­i­cal dis­or­der, some­thing that adds to the Nature v. Nur­ture debate. This, in par­tic­u­lar, rang true:
“Two peo­ple can expe­ri­ence the same level of anx­i­ety, he said, but one who has inter­est­ing work to dis­tract her from the jit­tery feel­ings might […]

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This is a movie review– of sorts.  It’s also some­what sur­real– Magritte’s Treach­ery of Images, except instead of this not being a blog post or a movie review, ceci n’est pas ma vie, my life.  At least it’s not the life that I want.
I’ve got about five drafts of this post started, all put­ter­ing out.  Much […]

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When I was grow­ing up, the Boston Police Depart­ment was what you’d expect– Irish-American males.  I was in high school before it really started to change, and the efforts to recruit women and minori­ties were stepped up.  There have been some sig­nif­i­cant changes (though there’s always room for improve­ment)– more and more, you see women […]

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Not far from my office, there’s an Immi­gra­tion and Nat­u­ral­iza­tion Ser­vice Appli­ca­tion Sup­port Cen­ter.  The street it’s on is a lit­tle hard to find, in a war­ren of con­fus­ingly laid out one way streets– if you take the wrong turn, you have to cir­cle all the way back around and start all over again.  An […]

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There’s an inter­est­ing arti­cle in the New York Times about the effect of online book sales on small book­stores– espe­cially the effect of resales on authors and stores.
I admit that I have bought my fair share of new books from Ama­zon, or gone to a box store like Bor­ders or Barnes and Noble.  I don’t […]

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