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Jan.12.2013
Today, I spent the day with my mother, was actually able to get her to eat, drove home, stopped at the grocery and picked up a few things, walked out to a spectacular sunset, and thought despite the problems that often consume my thinking how lucky I am to have the life I do.
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Oct.18.2012
I woke up to a headache this morning. It was the type that you feel like you've been stabbed by an icepick. I covered my eyes, groaning. I get terrible migraines during the fall; I know it has to do with allergies. Ida B who was sleeping with me jumped off the bed. I managed to...
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Jan.21.2011
First they lost their jobs, which included losing their healthcare. Not everyone could afford Cobra.
Then next, if they were fortunate enough to have it in the first place, they lost, little by little, or in big chunks, their savings for retirement, for their kids college, for a car that wasn't 13...
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Oct.28.2010
Hello out there.
It’s been a while since I last blogged anything here.
I think I’m through waiting for weekly topics from RedRoom to fill this space. I know that I am one of probably a legion of out-of-work writers in this nation at the moment. But lately I see how personal blogs have grown so...
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May.29.2010
RedRoom has asked us to blog on luck this week. Here are poems from two writers who find luck where others might despair. This poem, posted posthumously in the New Yorker in 1988, within weeks of Raymond Carver’s death from lung cancer, relates how very lucky he felt:
Gravy
No other word will do...
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May.28.2010
The luck of the draw. The luck of the Irish. He's a lucky guy. As luck would have it. Luck be a lady tonight.
Those are the first thoughts that come to mind when I hear the word luck. But last week I used the term to describe myself.
I had been invited to participate in a video interview about...
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May.26.2010
Jealousy is a powerful emotion, and it stems from envying the luck with which someone else has been blessed.
"God, she's sooooo lucky!"
"Some people have all the luck!"
If a friend has a big job interview, is going on a first date, or is hitting the buttons on a penny slot...
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May.26.2010
"Doesn't she know not to send me out to wait for the train to come at midnight?!" the man sitting next to me said. "I'm an alcoholic, for chrissakes!"
It was true that this man was going to have to find something to do for the next six hours; his wife was having him pick up...
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Mar.20.2009
It took me by surprise when a doctor who hadn't examined me before asked if I was widowed. "No, I've been divorced for 25 years," I replied. "That's a long time to be alone," he commented. I was bemused because I never think of myself as "alone." To the contrary, I...
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Feb.23.2009
I should have written this Saturday night, but I couldn’t quite get there. You know how it is when you’re really craving good cheese or strawberries or (let’s face it) Doritos, but you can’t bring yourself to drive to the store? So you decide that maybe you can hold off until tomorrow? It was like...
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