Hello, dollface

When my mom died, my dad was in rough shape. Eddie and I thought he had one foot in the grave. Every time I talked to him, it was like talking to Eeyore. And suddenly, six months later, he was a different person. Chipper, even. Her name is Katherine. She moved in, cheered him up, [...]

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A fowl day

I guess we are not meant to have chickens. Jeanne has gone to that great coop in the sky. It appears something attacked her in the coop (not Maggie this time, as Maggie passed away last October). Perhaps a possum or raccoon. Jeanne put up a fight, but didn’t make it. Once again, Eddie is [...]

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Signs of the week (weak?)

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I am posting?

I have been woefully slack at creating new content for this blog. I apologize. I’m overwhelmed with possible topics: My doctoral hooding ceremony, for which my chair wore jeans and paint-covered sandals The AEJMC conference I am attending that is making me feel like a James Franco-style slacker The fact that tapas places don’t seem [...]

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Signs of the times

Mike Judge is starting to look more and more like Nostradamus; his “Idiocracy” is akin to “The Prophecies.” You need evidence that we live in a society that is shunning intellectual curiosity and social responsibility? You must not have watched any of the debt debates. There are other signs all around of our declining intellectual [...]

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