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jane-wilson's picture
Apr.04.2013
I just finished reading, for the fourth time, Anne Lamott's very funny post about her year on Match.com.  I waited a few days for the comments to accumulate, because I was interested in her readers' response. Oops. Here's the link:  http://www.salon.com/2013/03/31/...
jane-wilson's picture
Feb.12.2013
When I was 15, I spent the summer in Finland.  Reindeer moss, Karelian pies and crayfish; herring for breakfast.  It's been a long time since I've immersed myself in these memories.  My daughter knows little about the life I lived before I married her father.  That wasn't by...
jane-wilson's picture
Jan.08.2013
           When a friend suggested I try online dating, so she'd have someone to join her and her friend on double dates,  I was ambivalent.  She reassured me she'd met lots of nice men online and gave me a sense it was a harmless, and...
bill-hayes's picture
Dec.24.2012
Middle age arrives not with a birthday, with 48 candles on an angel food cake, but with a sudden unbidden insight in the middle of a sleepless night. You roll over and eye the clock and see all at once that the phrase “anything is possible” is not true. That is, it is no longer true for you, if...
jane-wilson's picture
Dec.06.2012
First time readers, kindly read the first entry for October 27, 2012, when this story began:                                   ...
jane-wilson's picture
Dec.04.2012
Readers:  Please read Parts One and Two, or at least Part Two, which were posted yesterday.                                  ...
jane-wilson's picture
Dec.03.2012
Readers:  This story has three parts, which have been posted consecutively.                  The phone rang again.  You're not paranoid, I think to myself, they really are all talking about you. ...
jane-wilson's picture
Dec.03.2012
First time readers, kindly read the first entry for October 27, 2012, when this story began:                                   ...
jane-wilson's picture
Nov.25.2012
First time readers, kindly read the first entry for October 27, 2012, when this story began:                                   ...
jane-wilson's picture
Nov.25.2012
First time readers, kindly read the first entry for October 27, 2012, when this story began:                                   ...