Snowbrush
Avoiding hurt by anticipating it
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I just called a repair shop to make an appointment for the van. When I got off the phone, I checked with another shop, and learned that I co...
Dog stew
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Last week was a week of mishaps. One night, my bike bounced away from the edge of a steel plate in a construction zone. I hadn’t even seen t...
I'm asked to leave class
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I am no longer a student of Wicca, my teacher having given me the choice of apologizing to the class for being aggressive, argumentative, an...
Bandon burns
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I sat across from Idell Panter, a woman whom I hardly know, at the IOOF picnic today. For no apparent reason, she told me at length about th...
Cyber ritual
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I attended my second Wicca cyber ritual on Tuesday. “Let all who wish to meet with our Lady and Lord this night, enter now at the Eastern Ga...
Night + bike + moon + Floyd
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I just took my nightly bike ride, and passed a party from which the sounds of Pink Floyd reverberated for blocks. The Dark Side of the Moon ...
Screw 'em
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I had my lawyer in Mississippi start foreclosure on my father’s house, but he chickened out after hearing from the buyer’s attorney in North...
Yoga teachers and lifestyle counselors
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I took ten Yoga classes under five teachers in two weeks before signing up with Jay, the husband of a nurse with whom Peggy works. His big m...
Button day
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I rode with Peggy and another button-collector, Carmen, to Portland yesterday to the home of Jocelyn for a button sale and book signing. As ...
My neighbor is dying, and I never knew him
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Peggy spoke to our neighbor, Deborah, today while both were walking their dogs. Deborah said that her husband, John, is dying of prostate ca...
What to do about Bikram
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I visited a non-Bikram Yoga class today. The teacher spoke in soft tones while chants flowed from a CD and water gurgled from a fountain. A ...
A certain disillusionment creeps in
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The Bikram who started Bikram Yoga put together 26 Hatha yoga postures, taught them in a hot room, wrote a book about it, and had his lawyer...
Open house
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Peggy and I went to an open house today at Phil Conner’s. Most of his guests were from the Eagles or VFW, and they appeared poor both in mon...
Bikram
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I signed up for a month of Bikram Yoga yesterday (at $15 for one class or $30 for thirty classes, I couldn’t resist). An unbelievably energ...
A year and a day
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I have waited since last summer for admission to a Wicca internet class, and was finally accepted. I signed a contract on June 30 to be a st...
Synvisc
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I had my second injection of Synvisc today, a lubricating fluid that is injected into the middle of theknee from just below and a little to ...
Sleeping with magnets
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I slept with hardware store magnets wrapped around my knee for the past three nights. I read that magnets might alleviate the pain and swell...
Dream friends
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Twice lately, in my dreams, I created friends who I knew would disappear when I awakened. Each time, I held them tightly and said, “You are ...
Oscar Schlegel
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Oscar Schlegel, one of my Masonic brothers, asked me to take him to the barbershop yesterday. I often offer to do things for people but am s...
I might have preferred cancer
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I just got the results from my MRI. There were some areas where bone is scraping bone and other areas where bone is almost scraping bone. Th...
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