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In the film The American President, President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) is repeatedly attacked by rival senator, Bob Rumson (Richard Dreyfuss), and in the face of these character attacks, he chooses to simply "not dignify it with a response." His…
Continue reading...six
28. February 2007
Four is harder to write than one, two, and three because I realize, now that I’m up to number four, that there are more than four ex-friends. There are two more than four, which, last I checked,…
Continue reading...reject
17. January 2007
"Greatness is measured by your gifts, not your possessions." It’s written on the tab of my Mother’s Milk tea bag. I’m "snowed in" here in Austin today. Iced in, really. Austin shuts down when the city dips beneath 32 degrees. …
Continue reading...good grief
5. November 2006
I gotta say it’s damn nice being nowhere near the NYC Marathon. I received a text from Alexandra today: "Today is the marathon. Thinking of you and how far you have come. XO." I knew it was the marathon…
Continue reading...anywhere but here
24. August 2006
I nearly just posted a letter to a friend, one of those, "I’d never send this" letters where I tell her exactly what I think. Then I erased it because it’s inappropriate to post, but even more, I realized, why…
Continue reading...cats & the cradle
6. August 2006
My last day in New York, I headed out to Forest Hills, Queens to visit my grandfather. I’d tried to see him before I moved to Austin mid-April, but he wasn’t up for visitors. It used to be that he’d…
Continue reading...housecleaning
18. October 2005
It’s amazing how quickly everything can be cleaned and there still be a mess. When she learned her father died, she stood up and began to straighten the room, stacking the coffee table magazines into neat uniform piles. Folding dirty…
Continue reading...play
15. August 2005
Take a risk every day, even if it’s small. Get home a different way, take a new path; you’ll see new things. Sometimes when my friends and I go out, we make a dare for the night. I’m not revealing…
Continue reading...too, part two
15. June 2005
My father had to coach my mother in many things. I expect he had to teach her a lot in the bedroom, too, but I don’t spend much time imagining that. I correlate my mother’s reticent temperament, and low self-esteem,…
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