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[my friend Laura dissects a pig]
On my “About” page, I told you about my friend Laura. Before I first put her story out there in cyberspace for all the world to see, I had asked her to make sure she was OK with what I’d written about her. In Laura’s wonderful, funny and exceptionally […]

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[or how a nerdy financial type works a cocktail party]
It happened again today - I met a hottie - no, not what you’re thinking (shame on you)! A hottie is the affectionate nickname I have for people I meet at cocktail parties (elsewhere too, but work with me people once again on the metaphors), whose […]

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I’m having hot flashes…a lot of hot flashes. Five to ten times a day, a raging inferno hijacks my body, raising my body temperature from a balmy 98.6 to something that feels more like - oh I don’t know - reentering the earth’s atmosphere without the benefit of a space capsule. When I feel one […]

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My mother, Marion Harrison, died this past Thursday evening after a ten-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease. I was privileged to be with her when she passed and it was the hardest, most heartbreaking and yet most amazing experience of my life.
They call Alzheimer’s disease “the long goodbye” and they don’t lie…little by little in these past […]

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[or how I learned to ski]
I took my first salsa lesson today and it was truly humbling. I’ve been taking Zumba classes now at the gym for about a year and so I thought I knew a bit about Latin dancing. Suffice it to say, I didn’t.
 I’m not used to being led and I’m definitely not […]

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Wow, I’m still angry after my last post, but now at least I’m on to a different topic…I’m a regular at my local gym where talk in the locker room often turns to gossip - who’s sleeping with who; whose kid didn’t get into that particular private school, “Did you see what so and so was wearing….she […]

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