Tag: questions
member name: M M.
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July 20, 2007 05:14 AM EDT --
Okay, here's the question: you have been married to someone for many years - almost thirty, in fact. He has never once sent you flowers. Your mother, your sister, your brothers, your cousins, friends . . .
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October 29, 2007 08:36 AM EDT --
Yesterday, as I arrived home from the grocery store and was about to pull into the garage, I noticed a woman standing near my raspberry canes with her bicycle on the ground, helping herself to my raspberries. . . .
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November 09, 2007 10:11 AM EST --
I looked out the window. Snow.
Sigh. Covering the rooftops! Where
Was I? Sitting here with my mug
Of coffee. Unprepared
For what nature sends, the yard
Not raked, the jackets . . .
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July 16, 2007 11:57 AM EDT --
A question. Someone hurt you, so deeply that you cried every night for hours after the rest of the household had gone to bed. You lost forty pounds in fifteen months. This was twenty-five percent of your . . .
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August 31, 2007 09:55 AM EDT --
and it is definitely a last-minute thing. What was I thinking. I have some things that will sell themselves - books, videos, electronics, baby clothes, household stuff for the kids heading to college - . . .
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April 16, 2007 12:44 AM EDT --
An incident: a woman I had regarded as my best friend for ten years invited me for coffee. "So lovely to hear your voice," she'd said in her voicemail mesage, a response to my having called . . .
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August 23, 2007 05:04 AM EDT --
Most of the people I know do not get enough sleep. I do not get enough sleep. In my case, this is primarily because of my work schedule, but there is also an element of stress-related insomnia. I take . . .
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July 18, 2007 05:10 AM EDT --
Here is a question: how many people here take drugs in the category known as benzodiazepines? These wold include Xanax, Klonopin, Ativan, and (infamously) Valium. They are scheduled drugs (restricted access), . . .
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June 18, 2007 10:37 AM EDT --
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU KNEW YOU COULD NOT FAIL ?
I’d get that manuscript in the mail.
Spend a day living as a snail, slow
And leaving my trail of slime
Without regard to erasures . . .
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July 19, 2007 04:57 AM EDT --
I'm not asking specifically about the early ones, the ones that tend to be romantic, filled with flowers and dinners out and cards and carefully chosen gifts and the intimacies that follow. I'm . . .
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April 17, 2007 11:36 PM EDT --
We edit the pain. This is how we survive.
But it remains like shrapnel under skin
and rises, and sometimes breaks the surface.
But it does not break us.
Sometimes it disfigures, or makes us perfect . . .
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April 15, 2007 08:03 PM EDT --
to do on a glorious Sunday afternoon in April. I went to bed. I slept for hours under a down quilt while children played in tank tops, neighbors walked their dogs, and the garden tugged at me like the . . .
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April 27, 2007 12:52 PM EDT --
Woke up sad, barely
able to move, smell
of burnt toast and
the ashes of a bad day
already begun - my son
awake, three-thirty in
the morning. Panic
and pacing all night
and I was afraid the house . . .
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April 25, 2007 12:20 AM EDT --
It is the butterfly bushes I mourn
most deeply
and the monarchs that will not come
because of that: the deaths lead
to absence, the guests invited
but the dinner unprepared.
It is the white . . .
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June 18, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
Ten Free Minutes: Word Game
My philosophy is as follows:
Beg for ten free minutes, and then seize them.
No, do not beg for what is rightfully yours.
Just reach out your hand, . . .
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June 18, 2007 02:20 PM EDT --
He was a mystery to me, in a great many ways: a silent, stoic man who grew up on a ranch in South Dakota, speaking only Norwegian for the first years of his life. I have a picture of him standing on a . . .
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April 23, 2007 12:59 AM EDT --
Over the past several Sunday evenings, I have been watching Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel. A simply amazing series, much of it revolving around the ebb and flow of nature: spring and fall; night . . .
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May 07, 2007 12:17 PM EDT --
When a child is born, you want only the best for that new life. You look into the fathomless blue eyes and think of days to come. A boy. Bicycles and Little League. Scouts - maybe even Eagle Scout. Girlfriends . . .
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