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One of our sons just adopted two kittens. They are adorable and I got to hold and pet them the other day. We are in the midst of “Swedish death cleansing” known as döstädning. “It’s what people are doing before somebody passes away so that the relatives don’t get left with the big chore of sorting out…
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Love is love. [This was written but not posted many weeks ago.] From The Hill, a primarily political newspaper in Washington DC. This is not how I want my home state to appear in the national news: An Oregon school district reportedly forced an LGBTQ student to read passages from the Bible as a form of…
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I made salal muffins yesterday morning. The berries grow wild in our hedge and ripen over a period of weeks or months. The muffins were made with organic flour and eggs, butter and some maple syrup for sweetening. I had two with butter for my breakfast. That’s about 400 calories, which is allowed and also…
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We live right onshore, just a few bare feet above sea level. Every day we watch the Pacific Ocean wash in and out just beyond our front yard. Since 1979, the ocean has slid through the path in the hedge and onto the grass just twice. The Cascadia Fault is a concern, but like most…
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“When even the unpopular girls are rich, if not always pretty, how will they attempt rebellion and nonconformity?” I haven’t read this new satirical novel about an elite private school in Australia. I probably never will. When I got to the line above in The New York Times review, I thought, “Why would I care?”…
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We gathered. I gathered some of it, not counting what my mother, aunt, grandmother, and other relatives failed to deal with. There were unsorted boxes in the attic that NO ONE wanted to deal with. We tried to give away a lot of things that were immediately useful—to someone else—but much of that stuff has…
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I could pretend to love The Left Hand of Darkness, but I never did. I could acknowledge that I do love many other novels such as Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, Vonda McIntyre’s Dream Snake, and Molly Gloss’s The Dazzle of Day. But my favorite science fiction novel is Rite of Passage by Alexei…
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Today I applied for a Hedgebrook residency. I have applied ten times before for this residency, which is limited to women. My first experience at a women’s writing residency was The Flight of the Mind in the 1990s. The first time I attended, I completely failed to anticipate the impact of spending a week with…
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I saw a meme on Facebook the other day. The wording was something like: “I decided I needed to lose 10 pounds last year, and after six months I am doing great—12 pounds to go!” That is the irony when our best intentions go backwards. I have some personal experience with that. I have been…
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