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  • The Taming of Paul Squires (gingatao)

     Once again, I’ve asked a fantabulous writer and blogger some questions for those of us who are not “in the know” but would like to be. 1. Do you ever take a handful of raisins and eat them quickly because you suspect if you took time to really think about them, you might actually hate…

  • How to Get On with It for the Love of Jesus

    If you have to use Aspercreme on sore muscles, wash and rewash your hands. Once or twice is not good enough, because should the icy-hot fire somehow get around your what-not area, it will burn for hours and you will be miserable. If you haven’t already done so, just get on with it. Eat chips…

  • Facts about Sobbing

    Sobbing is never, ever attractive. It makes people uncomfortable. Sobbing induces other people’s sobbing. It makes the one who started the sobbing feel a little guilty, but not really. Sobbing is best suppressed after two minutes. One can continue to sob inwardly, but it’s best to be polite about it and shut up. Sobbing causes…

  • Stones

    Consider it written in stone. The stone at the head of a non-descript grave at a non-descript cemetery on the outskirts of some field in the middle of nowhere. Here she lies. This is how it will go. Tomorrow, there will be tears. Tomorrow, there will be a long, sad drive home and an even…

  • Go Quietly

    Neither of us will go quietly. That was obvious from the first. Her moans and denials and fight are only restrained by the liquid morphine that courses through her veins. She will not go quietly.   On the way to see her. On the way to see her for the last time. I did not…

  • Recital

    Make it hurt. Bryan says it unnerves him when I recite his words back to him repeatedly in conversation. But make it hurt? It’s what I do best. I want to ask him if he believes in messages sent through time and space. I want to ask him if it’s possible whoever said that phrase…

  • Taming the Irrational

    I am consistent. I at least have that going for me. I have a thing for buying high heels that are too tall for me. I have a thing for inappropriateness. I tell myself that I will wear them in my house to break them in, learn how to walk in them, and firm my…

  • How to Navigate Threatening Situations

    It’s not true what they said failure always an option in all life-threatening and non-life-threatening situations Prediction. If I am gazed upon by the sun, I will burn. My skin will peel. Repeat until I get skin cancer and die. That’s failure or success, depending on your life view.

  • Polish

    It’s a goddamned shame. A single drip of pink nail polish wham-bam in the middle of your perfectly manicured nails, painted in a whitish-topcoat. Because what happens now has everything to do with smearing. Get the acetone. Get the q-tips. Get the cotton balls. Get what you can. It won’t matter. Perfection won’t be perfection any…

  • The Left, the Right, What’s Left: Continued Thoughts on Marcus Luttrell (Lone Survivor)

    I think the bastards should die. And I think the bastards should live. Those are my comprehensive thoughts about war and the Other Side. Listen. Let’s say you and I were driving somewhere, maybe to see my mother or camp or go shopping. You are driving. We are in a sharp curve, and a dog…