Tag: life
member name: Stirling D.
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June 20, 2008 11:56 PM EDT --
My sister and I used to play a game we called Queen and Slave. It was very simple. When it was her turn, she would be the Queen and I would be her slave. And then I would be Queen, and . . .
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December 27, 2006 12:40 PM EST --
To embrace the truth. I have a tendency to live in a wish-fulfilling fantasy.
Last year when I was living in India, I expected that once I landed my job and came home with my beautiful Tibetan . . .
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January 16, 2008 10:44 PM EST --
Paratha is my favorite kind of Indian bread. I never figured out why Tibetans always pronounce it "parantha" - and Indians too, at least in Himachal. I never learned how to make bread as a . . .
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December 31, 2007 09:17 PM EST --
December 31, 2007
Last day of the year and I made a mix of songs on my computer. I'm not sure why but I chose all American music, just to see if I could make a good mix. Here it is: . . .
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September 09, 2007 11:39 AM EDT --
The chicken wobbled on her ropy legs
shoulders unbalanced
head drooping to one side
eyes blinked upwards
"She's dying," the woman said to her friend.
Tears tugged upwards from . . .
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December 12, 2007 05:31 PM EST --
After work I drove
Straight to my husband’s house
Black road disappearing
Into the mouth of gold and red lights
Shops along the way
I stopped to crunch through ice
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June 25, 2008 02:57 PM EDT --
I had just been out of the hospital a couple of months. I was still 20 pounds under weight and my new teeth weren't ready yet, so I couldn't smile without revealing the missing ones in . . .
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September 13, 2007 07:35 AM EDT --
The truck rides by in the night, its red lights blinking
so regular
so sweetly dependable
How do people find such things
such pathways
untrammeled by insecurity
unvarnished by scabs of expectation
how . . .
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