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Last night when you were steering a canoe through some heavy swells you caught the edge of your thumbnail on the gunnel of the boat and the angle was just so that it pulled off half of the nail. And you swore and then realized that was going to hurt a lot and then you [...]
If you just happened to reach into your shoulder bag to grab your cellphone this weekend while traveling in a foreign country, and found it missing…then your heart started racing more than a little bit as you retraced your afternoon and realized that it was probably still in that coffeeshop where you’d stopped for awhile [...]
This morning when you went to the prosthetist’s office you were feeling a bit fussy and discouraged. Because for the past six months things just haven’t been right. Either your leg has been too long, or too short, or the knee hasn’t been taking a charge or the socket has been leaving pressure sores. And [...]
I’ve talked about my rodent-phobia a few times before on this blog, but for those new here, I’ll just summarize: it’s ugly. Rodents give me panic-attacks. The first time my ex heard me encounter a possum on a dark night, he thought I was being raped because of my screams for help. I know, I [...]
Almost six months ago, I posted about my desire to “fall in love” with new experiences this year. I just re-read my post and realized that I’ve already accomplished everything on my list for 2011, some of these even more than once! So here’s that post again, as a refresher (and a reminder of just [...]
After my conference in Washington DC this past week, I had an open afternoon for sightseeing. A last-minute plan evolved to see a Civil War battlefield–which sounded better than just about any other option available in the area. And we decided to not just see any old battlefield, but the mother-of-all-battlefields: Gettysburg. But on the [...]
I snapped many pictures at the beach this weekend, but nothing charmed me quite so much as this sand dollar. Perhaps it’s because I am broken, too.
If, today you had a long day working in the State Archive, all the while wondering why (oh why) archives always have the world’s most uncomfortable and unergonomic chairs, you realized that you had no plan whatsoever for after 4pm when all good state offices close. So you looked up the Pyramid Alehouse that your [...]
swirly, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl. If, when you saw a posting on Freecycle for 12(!) rosebushes, you realized that they were just calling your name…“Jana,” they said…and you thought to yourself just how much those rosebushes would cost and just how much you would enjoy them, you probably didn’t think twice before you told that [...]
If you just opened an email from your doctor and he wrote that the MRI you had last week–the one of the surgical site on your leg–that it is perfectly normal and showed no signs of residual infection, you will shed a few tears as you forward that message to your husband, ignoring the fact [...]
today’s rose, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl. If you had an email message informing you that the “soup brigade” was headed to your house tonight, then you would have heard a knock on your door at about 5pm to find K. standing there with a bevy of bags and bins. She then came in and proceeded [...]
unfolding, originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl. “Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”~Margaret Fuller If you went this morning to your favorite chi-chi Newport Beach nursery today to pick up a few plants for your garden and felt overwhelmed and grateful for the abundance (even as you smiled a bit [...]
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