"B" Stings

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Outwitting Your Personal Temptor

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He gently turns your head so you can see them:  freshly baked doughnuts arranged in neat rows. He opens your senses -- visual, olfactory -...
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Friday, April 27, 2012

Way Out Here In Coyote Land

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In the mountainous region of the remote Southwest, nature in the raw still dominates. Los Alamos, New Mexico, where I now live, is still g...
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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Woke Up This Morning

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Woke up this morning. Many songs begin with that phrase: Woke up this mornin' feelin' blue, My gut was full of s...
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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Dancing

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When I think of dancing, I am reminded  of an old Welsh tale in which a man is gifted by the faeries with a harp. It was no ordinary harp, f...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

That Marvelous Invention -- the Mirror

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There was (maybe still is) a restaurant in the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C. called The Blue Mirror. I used to go there to drink Germa...
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Friday, March 16, 2012

Shenanigans (the Folklore Version)

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the flag of Wales Shenanigans.  The word sounds Irish (which it may or may not be, according to my research). Nonetheless, it makes m...
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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Ducks Are Not Nice People

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 Aflac Ducks are not nice people. For one thing they react to your appearance in their yard as if you were the Gestapo, even t...
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Back in my mid-twenties I held a lowly clerical job in a San Francisco-based corporation. One day I was pulled from my regular duties and asked to go over various files in order to destroy evidence of price fixing. This new assignment violated my code of ethics and I was in the process of considering how and when to launch my protest when my in-laws decided to pay us a visit. Naturally, I spoke to them about my job dilemma since it weighed heavily on my mind. Here's what my father-in-law said: "Listen, tootsie, if your boss tells you to do something, YOU DO IT!" We (my husband, his parents and I) were seated in our small apartment drinking wine.Thus, my reaction to my father-in-law's admonishment was to hurl my wine glass in the general vicinity of his head. I am not proud of this criminally violent and shockingly immature behavior and, in retrospect, I regretted that I had not opted for a cleverer and more graceful way to address my father-in-law's misogynistic posturing. As the years progressed, I learned to act on the (formulaic) advice I gave my students -- "Use your words!"
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