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Bonsai!

Posted on 04/20/2008 by chick

Yesterday morning, we went to a beginner’s bonsai workshop, where we chose, trimmed, and potted our own bonsai trees. We took so long to choose our materials that the class was almost over by the time we started potting our … Continue reading →

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Thinking of Grampa

Posted on 04/18/2008 by chick

I invented the Vonnegut Marathon partly as a way of symbolically honoring my grandfather. Now that the race is over, I feel like I did them both justice. The irony is that my grandfather was nothing like Vonnegut. He probably … Continue reading →

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Philosophy of Blogging

Posted on 04/16/2008 by chick

It is too easy to live one’s life as a series of big things (births, weddings, vacations, promotions, etc.) and bad things (illnesses, deaths, accidents, taxes, etc.) and overlook the wealth of small, wonderful things that happen all the time. … Continue reading →

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Tax Relief?

Posted on 04/16/2008 by chick

Whew! My taxes are done! But after all the numbers were crunched, punched, and slightly drooled upon, things did not turn out in my favor. Uncle Sam took a mighty chunk. Do you think there’s any chance he might learn … Continue reading →

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Beauties of Nature

Posted on 04/15/2008 by chick

Ah, the beauties of nature—a couple of geese coming in for a landing on the canal, the maples’ fuzzy red flowers, and a bicylist’s butt crack.

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Nine Squirrel Day

Posted on 04/14/2008 by chick

I took a walk in the woods the other day. I saw 9 squirrels. I named them Alistair, Bernard, Coco, Dumbledore, Ernest, Frodo, Guinevere, Heliotrope, and Ignatius.

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Only the Names Have Changed

Posted on 04/09/2008 by chick

Sometimes living in Rhode Island is like a distorted echo of living in Connecticut. Everything’s the same, only the names have changed. It’s often the small things, like TV commercials, that remind me of how displaced I am. Years of … Continue reading →

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I’ll Take Mine Extra Rare

Posted on 04/08/2008 by chick

In a recent post, I said that a surname was unusual because only 1 in 33,333 families in the U.S. had that name. That may have been an overstatement. By comparison, Faithful Reader’s name is much rarer (1 in 50,000) … Continue reading →

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We Must Be Crazy

Posted on 04/07/2008 by chick

Today I cooked and ate breakfast, worked for almost 8 hours, prepared and ate lunch, cooked and ate dinner, washed dishes, took a brief walk, and blogged. For me, this was a full day and it felt like I accomplished … Continue reading →

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People Change

Posted on 04/07/2008 by chick

I did something kinda gross, but I’m also kinda proud of it. I used some chorizo that was like 4 months past its sell-by date. It contained preservatives and it was refrigerated for much of its life. Moreover, it looked … Continue reading →

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