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Bicycling Bitches
Last year, I decided to go on a bicycle ride. There was nothing unusual about this, but it was a long ass bicycle ride. 50 miles on the new High Trestle Trail, a gorgeous trail that I am very lucky to...
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Things I Love/Hate This Week #3
LOVE: - teatime At some point in my life, I will surely end up living in England. I haven’t decided when or where, but I know it will happen. I love London and would love a flat in Bloomsbury or in...
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My Christmas List (or, Buy Me Things!) #2!
So, I realized that twelve is a limiting number. Perhaps you didn’t want to get me the things on my previous list. (CLICK THIS LINK!) Perhaps you needed more ideas? Christmas is rapidly approaching, so...
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Things I Loved/Hated This Week #13
LOVE: Good Off: This stuff is miraculous. It smells dreadful and makes my lungs feel like they’re shutting down, but it will take paint off of anything in two seconds. I am constantly stunned by how...
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Restaurant Review: Proof
The most important thing in the entire world is looking nice. You should never leave your home looking like a peasant. When I get dressed each day, I think of one of these things: 1. What if today is...
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Things I Loved/Hated This Week #24
LOVE: Florida: I’ve not been to a lot of places when you consider the globe, but I am fairly well traveled, though I’ve not yet seen California. Florida is easily one of my favorite places in all the...
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Florida Escape Day 5
I woke easily and early this morning with a choked sob. I didn’t want to leave. I didn’t want to go back home to the cold and snow and ice and sadness. I would have gone to live in a tenement in the...
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Let’s Bring Back…
[Advance warning: this is a long one. Also, support my hypothetical gubernatorial campaign!] I was born at the wrong time. I’ve always known this. I long for the olden days — not too far back, mind...
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A Midget In Wisconsin
My cousin, Midget, the 40-year old man, (birth name Hannah, but I don’t think I’ve ever called her that) was here last week so we did an awful lot of things. I was going to write about it all, but then...
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Restaurant Review: David’s Milwaukee Diner (Hotel Pattee)
The last time I went out to dinner at the Hotel Pattee, the food was an atrocity. Everything tasted like it had just been in the freezer and the menu lacked anything special. When I thought about...
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THINGS I LOVED / HATED THIS WEEK #80
I’ve been in an irrationally good mood this week, so I didn’t hate anything. I don’t get it either. LOVE: Angela Lansbury on TOUR! Angela Lansbury is one of my queens. I grew up watching her play Ms....
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Things I Loved This Week #105
Rabbit Corkscrew: I went through a phase where I claimed I didn’t like wine, and I’m just now coming out of it. I was spoiled by good French wine, which you can get on any corner in Paris for under...
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Why Don’t You? #102
Monday: Why don’t you invent some kind of device to immediately remove the lint from black pants? Lint rollers exist, but I don’t think they always work very well. I roll them all over my pantaloons,...
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THINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #140
LOVE: The Discovery of King Tut Exhibition @ Putnam Museum: My most used catchphrase is, “Egypt is everywhere!” I usually have this on Instagram and it’s followed by a number of ridiculous hashtags...
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THINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #169
LOVE: “The Painted Queen” by Elizabeth Peters: Y’all, I’m about to pass out. 2017 might be a great year. I mean, we have Obama for another week, and now A NEW AMELIA PEABODY BOOK IS COMING OUT. Hold on...
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THINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #189
LOVE: American Horror Story — Cult: Look, I did not at all expect to love this. I didn’t even plan to watch the latest season of American Horror Story, but I am so glad that I did. AHS has been...
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MEXICO CITY: Adios
“Hello and goodbye,” I sang morosely the next morning pretending that I was Madonna in her iconic role as Evita in Evita. If for some reason you’ve never seen this musical, stop reading this right now...
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THINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #218
LOVE: Eurovision 2018 – Lisbon: First things first, I’m dying to go to Portugal. It looks stunning. I’m hoping to fly into Lisbon the next time I go to Europe and spend a few days exploring the...
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THINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #253
LOVE: Slim Base Cabinet: I was just writing about all the different careers I dreamed I had enough time for. One lifetime isn’t long enough to be a curious individual. The world is full of too many...
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CUERNAVACA: Past Lives, New Lives, Other Lives, Better Lives
I never did see Lowry’s volcano. Well, I suppose I did, I must have. I probably saw it all the time, but Popocatépetl remains an enigma. I haven’t the foggiest idea where to look. I’ve seen pictures...
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