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If a picture is worth a thousand words… here are 82,000 words.
Enjoy!

Following is part of conversation between two women, in their late-forties or early-fifties, that I recently overheard on the M15 downtown bus. Note that the movie “Ray” was just released in theatres approximately one week before the incident.
Woman 1: You know what I want to see? Ray!
Woman 2: Oh… that’s a real good movie.
Woman 1: [...]

I really love it when Amy and Scottie come for a visit.
A lot of people I know—co-workers, friends—roll their eyes or pass me pained, knowing looks when I mention that I’m going to visit my parents or my in-laws or when I say my brother is coming into town. It seems that for a [...]

My brother and his wife just came into town for the weekend.
Woo-hoo!

Ok. Enough gloom, doom, and wallowing. Some good news!
I’m happy to report that since I started my own blog experiment three very good friends have also taken the plunge. These three have been added to the top of my blog roll in the left nav.
Hibiscusfire - This is what you might call a theme [...]

First there was cautious optimism.
Then: Kubler-Ross’ five stages of dying:
1) Denial and isolation: 10pm-midnight (election night)
2) Anger: midnight-1am (election night)
3) Bargaining: 1am-2:30:am (election night)
4) Depression: Nov.2nd
5) Acceptance: Still working on it

I am so depressed today.
I knew I would be disappointed if Bush won, but I did not expect to feel this bad. I didn’t think it would feel so personal. I feel terrible. Sick. Like some monumentally negative thing just happened.
But, alas, the people have spoken. This is what America looks like today.
For [...]

scrutinize \SKROO-tuh-nyze\ verb
1 : to examine closely and minutely
2 : to make a scrutiny
Example sentence:
Signora Bernasconi scrutinized the painting, said to be by Fra Angelico, and declared it a fake.
A close look at the etymology of “scrutinize” reveals that the word stems from the Latin verb “scrutari” (meaning “to search” or “to examine”), [...]

There never seems to be enough time.

It’s been so long since I posted that the blog went blank. Sad.
I was writing an entry about the Ireland trip, but it seems too long and boring so I’ll edit it before I inflict it upon you. In the meantime I’ll digress to give you an update [...]