Monthly Archives: August 2009

Tigers Are Cool

My favorite lolcat: see more Lolcats and funny pictures And I’m sorry, but this is just awesome:

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Five Months

Congo comes back in flashes–like, I’m blow drying my hair Sunday morning and I’m thinking about that first night in a Rwanda border town, eating plates of whole fish, fried, with heaps of thick french fries. How dark it was in the little restaurant, just a few dim bulbs for the room, shadows everywhere. Like [...]

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Saturday

Here is Saturday. Eggs, bacon, toast, and clementines for breakfast. Jesse mowed the backyard this morning while I vacuumed and cleaned the kitchen and bathrooms. I drank two nearly freezing glasses of iced green tea with fresh mint. Two flies that snuck in last night as we were grilling out buzzed around the cats all [...]

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Numbers

I realized the other day that I am the same age now that my sister was when she had my niece C. Who was her second child. I’m exactly ten years older than C. Sixteen and twenty-six. I could have a baby. Two babies! At first, this made me feel quite old. And then, I [...]

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Iced coffee and strange cities

You may have noticed the blog was down over the weekend. There was something technical involved, servers and expiring domains and major drama, none of which I will burden you with. Suffice it to say, a human being was needed to make things right, and humans tend to disappear on weekends (which is as it [...]

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