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Gardening as a dangerous sport
Yesterday, I gashed the inside of my left ankle somehow while gardening in sandals. I thought I would be OK to rollerblade, but this morning, I skated around the Marina, and it was quite painful. Shuffling off to the Alumni Skate Night now. Yikes!
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Hungry pants
4-yr-old’s face is covered in oatmeal. I say, “You’ve been eating oatmeal!” She says, “It’s on my pants, too. My pants were hungry.”
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My first post
It is late and I am now simultaneously watching a Tivo’d Countdown with Keith Olbermann, creating this new blog and writing this entry. Whew!
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I’m in trouble now
4-yr-old got up this am, logged onto computer with password she’d been told once and started playing computer games. I’m in trouble now.
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Busted!
4-yr-old points at suspicious piece of crumpled blue foil on carpet this am, says: “The Easter Bunny must have eaten some candy.” (Busted!)
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Yes We Can
The other day Angie and I were in Target. I was looking for a Penguin humidifier Sophia’s mom, Susan, had told me about. I looked everywhere in the store and couldn’t find it anywhere. I called the store’s help line. We were still having trouble. Angie burst out: “Yes we can! Yes we can! Obama!”
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Santa Cruz
I am the Emimem version of a bag lady, what with my Nevada hoodie and wild hair. Mari won’t let me talk like that about myself, but I think it’s funny. It’s slightly embarrassing, but in Santa Cruz, my home territory, there are old women, black white, with colored rags in their hair pulling rolling [...]
Surrealville
Yesterday, I fell asleep on a funky, old couch at the Ultramat in Santa Cruz while our clothes were in the washer. Dane, Angie and Mari were there. When I woke up, the radio was playing The Eagles’ “Dirty Laundry.” I was confused at first, because I thought it was either a joke or [...]
Mimi on Greg’s Death
Greg Dilley ( of Ichinet Zadankai and www.fraughtwithperil.com) died
June 10th. He had gone free diving in Monterey Bay and drowned.
More on his death on his widow Nancy’s blog Chapter Diary on
www.fraughtwithperil.com.
Greg was an amazing dude– early adopter of the Internet to promote
Buddhist dialogue. Famous for the terms “pop Buddhism” and “think
dammit!” Registered Shidoshi (instructor) of [...]
Houdini
Another weird coincidence happened lately – -among many that have happened since I started following Martha Beck’s advice and began consciously listening to my essential self, carefully also listening to my social self as well, so as to not fuck my life up totally by doing something outrageously inappropriate in public. When I was in [...]
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