From the monthly archives:
As an editor, one of the automatic changes I make to any piece of writing is to change unnecessary big words into perfect little ones. Don’t get me wrong, I love the big ones! Sometimes big fancypants words are just and precisely the only way to say exactly what you mean! But sometimes they are [...]
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Yeah so anyway. Don’t look at me like that, eyebrows all raised at me like I never post anymore. Shut up. So I’ve been a little busy, ok? It’s a really good busy, actually, a kind of busy I wouldn’t have been able to CONCEIVE of this time last year, in which I go to [...]
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Ok, so my voice is mostly back. As long as I don’t overtax it like I did tonight, going out with a friend and eating fries and gabbing about which celebrities we’d like to spend a few intimate minutes on the couch with. And not in the psychotherapy sense. At the end of that conversation [...]
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I appear to have lost my voice. It has taken me a few days to figure this out. A week ago right now I was descending into the jaws of the worst cold I can ever remember having, not counting that airplane sickness I got coming home from Amsterdam. Airplane sickness always kicks serious ass. [...]
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As a creature of habit unto the point of ritual — I’m frankly impressed that I don’t light candles and incense to mark every damn thing I do — I am fairly predictable in my post-work behavior. Say hello to the cats, change into play clothes. Put on the kettle for some tea. While the [...]
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