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May.27.2013 ROUS's May 27 ROUSs Time passes, I clock it and count it and use its passage to construct a defense or accusation depending on my need. I use the calendar to condemn you because my feelings do not have sufficient leverage for my mental calculations. To...	Aug.01.2012 Game Playing August 1 GAME PLAYING My Higher Power doesn’t play me like a board game, doesn’t monopolize my time or put me in jeopardy. My trouble is my own. I pursue trivia at my discretion. I take or reject risk at will. I scrabble my thoughts and am sorry when I...
Jun.05.2012 Doll June 5 DOLL “Why is your face all red?” asked my sponsor. “I didn’t get my way,” I responded. “And this crimson appearance is the result?” “You see that it is. I was very careful about what I wanted and worked hard to be reasonable.” “And Baby, you were. You did...	Aug.01.2011 Porcellano August 1 Porcellano Some days I feel like a porcelain doll; hard head, hard hands, hard feet and everywhere else is soft, gormless. I feel useless and act out my feelings, stumbling through a day of pointless inactivity. I know that I belong on a shelf or propped upon the...
May.15.2011 Madame Alexander May 15 Madame Alexander I am, too naïve; if you show me kindness I will believe you, follow you, obey you, so, I have rules. These rules do not protect me, but they do make a box for me to seal myself inside. Where I will ship myself, stack myself...	Dec.15.2010 Through the Eyes of Love When I was about 7, I had a doll, originally a "Betsy-Wetsy" doll, who had eyes that would close and who drank a bottle and wet her diaper (big toy technology when I got the doll, about 1949) I had had the doll a few years, left her out in the sun and rain, so her latex skin was blistered...
Oct.06.2010 A bard's muse on Scifi Sundays I saw a motherless waif today, sitting on a park bench, watching all the other children playing. His face was dirty and stretched with a long frown. The laughter of the other children seemed to make the frown longer, as dads rode down the slides with their daughters or moms gave an occasional push...	Jun.05.2009 Doll June 5 DOLL “Why is your face all red?” asked my sponsor. “I didn’t get my way,” I responded. “And this crimson appearance is the result?” “You see that it is. I was very careful about what I wanted and worked hard to be reasonable.” “And Baby, you were. You did nothing wrong. Your ego was...
Mar.16.2009 Ken: Barbie's Bitch for 48 Years On March 9, Barbie celebrated her 50th birthday - a truly notable day for a true American classic. Not so newsworthy was the birthday of her lifelong boy toy, Ken. Ken's official birthday is March 13, 1961. Since Barbie made her debut in 1959, this means that Ken is two years younger than Barbie...	Mar.09.2009 Barbie and Ken, sitting in a tree Porochista Khakpour wrote a wonderful op-ed in the New York Times today about someone who is celebrating a birthday today. It’s someone we all have feelings for, good or bad. It’s someone who has divided women. No, it’s not Sarah Palin! Or Hillary Clinton! It’s Barbie! Yes Gentle Readers, today is...