July 2005

Back from the North….

of California, where the weather is…actually better than in LA. It’s hot up there, but dry. Whereas it’s hot down here andsomewhat humid. Not quite the Pennsylvania effect, to be sure, but still and all…etc etc. So–we had the Official First Walk Through of our new house. This consisted of Clay, a rather cute guy […]

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Brain Work…

I had my angiogram on Friday to (a) make sure my little slinky was still in place, and (b) check that I’m not harboring any more insidious aneurysms (IAs, I like that!). Evidentally both (a) and (b) are A-okay. However, having people messing around in your brain, pumping drugs into your body, doing their whatever-they-do, […]

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Who’s Your Jane Austen?

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There’ll Always Be An England…

Lo these many years ago, when I lived in London, it was the time of the IRA bombers. We lived in a one bedroom flat on the third floor of a row house off the Finchley Road (that’s how you say it, “off the whatever road”). It was around Christmas time, and I was putting […]

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It is two and a half days before B day –my BIG BIRTHDAY. I cannot decide whether to be depressed or not. That is, I don’t want to be depressed. I want to be joyful, etc. etc., but this grim feeling is sort of seeping over me. Now is that because of the BB? Or […]

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