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Excerpts from “Blue Nights” and My Own As-Yet-Unwritten Memoir
Joan Didion wrote “The Year of Magical Thinking” after her husband, John Dunne, died of a heart attack at the dinner table, and her daughter, Quintana Roo, collapsed into a serious illness from…
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Luck o the Irish
This past weekend was a camping weekend for us – sort of. The Professor’s family, in years past, made a tradition of a Memorial Day weekend campout. We skipped last year, probably…
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MILP Roundup # 293 and 294 and OhMyGodI’mATerriblePerson
I failed to post my MILP roundup in late February, causing a domino effect of lost MILP updates. I would claim bar exam nuttiness, but we are all busy ladies in the land of…
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Snapshot of My House at Four Thirty on a Wednesday Morning
The dog, suddenly alight with some devilish notion, runs up and down the stairs a couple of times, clackety clack on the hard wood. It is pitch dark outside, an hour before the…
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Busy busy busy
I flew home from Tampa on a windy February day, and landed right into a whole mess of work that’s still sort of running my life. To top it off, Saturday was our…