For the record, and this has nothing to do with the subject of my post, physical therapy is brutal. Even pool therapy. The last time I had pool therapy for my back, it wasn’t so bad. Now I want to curl into a ball and die. I wonder if that makes it more effective, or […]
I mean, I don’t recall asking my mother what I would be. I remember telling her what I would be. A lot of variety in there. I wanted to be everything from a princess to a doctor to a teacher to a marine biologist (thank my cousin for that one). None of that exactly can […]
My public library ordered an “Inigo Montoya” book. Before anyone gets too excited, I don’t mean the novel of the The Princess Bride, which I do recommend, nor a book about Mandy Patinkin. I’m referring to “I do not think that means what you think it means.” As I was scrolling through my public library’s […]
It occurred to me that in my blog post yesterday, I wrote, “We can’t simply compromise,” not “We simply can’t compromise.” The exchange of two words, yet a very clear distinction. Most of my life, I registered as an independent for the purpose of voting. Indeed, I did so until the 2016 elections, because by […]
I met a guy yesterday. Not for me, not romantically. No, this was a lunch meeting with my best friend and her boyfriend. They live out-of-town, so though the two of them started dating in December (four months ago), this is the first time I was able to meet him. They met on OKCupid, and […]
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? -Carl Sagan, Charlie Rose: An Interview with […]
The Implied Spider 