November 2005

Does the story have an ending?

I reupped with both Weightwatchers and Curves this week, and it occurred to me that this may be the ending of the journey that began when the aneurysm in my brain blew a couple of years ago. The whole six weeks that I was in Intensive Care, my friends and family would tell me that […]

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Thanksgiving was something of a disappointment. For some reason, my pecan pie, which has in year’s past been known as Jane’s World Famous Best Ever Pecan Pie, was only marginal. It was, in a word goopy. I hate goopy pecan pie. That is, pecan pie in which the nuts sit atop a solid mass of…goop. […]

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FASHION 101

Imagine, if you will, a woman of a certain age and the body issues that normally accompany that age. She is not fat, but neither is she thin. Her flesh doesn’t wobble mercilessly, but neither is it taut. Her breasts have grown over the years, and if she had had in high school, what she […]

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The Inspiration of Dooce

Whenever I read her, I always want to come here and write. Sometimes she is outrageous, but mostly I wish I had her guts to call it like it is in public.

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UC Davis Medical Center

I went there the other day for a CAT scan and I’m quite perturbed, to say the least. Specifically I went to the new (2 years I think) Ellison Ambulatory Care Center and–it stunk. Smelled. Was maloderous. Not with that baked linen over urine smell that one expects hospitals to have. This was far worse. […]

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