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Category Archives: Musings

Illicit love

I admit it. I know it’s wrong, in so many ways, but I cannot help myself. I’m in love. Perhaps love isn’t the right word. I don’t love SUVs. I don’t love the idea putting hundreds of dollars toward gasoline every month. I don’t love spending thousands of dollars on new cars (well, actually I [...]

Posted 30 April 2008 † Alarming Female § True Confessions ‡ Comments (7) °

Mediation

I was not looking forward to today and had no illusions about the likelihood we’d reach an agreement. To my surprise, we did. My attorney says the divorce could be final next week. As I sit here alone, surrounded by people in a busy restaurant and sipping a glass of very nice Lebanese wine, I [...]

Posted 25 April 2008 † Alarming Female § Family ‡ Comments (15) °

My son the Dungeon Master

From the New York Times yesterday (via boingboing), a tribute to Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax, who died last week. The accompanying article’s discussion on how D&D informs our world is, perhaps, the most lucid explanation of geek culture I’ve ever read. We live in Gary Gygax’s world. The most popular books on earth [...]

Posted 10 March 2008 † Alarming Female § Autism § Current Events ‡ Comments (3) °

I have a unique personality

From my Pei Wei fortune cookie the other day—I have a unique personality. Well. I’ve been pondering the wisdom of this statement since then, trying to determine what, exactly, makes my personality unique. A friend mentioned that the fact I’m pondering this is one of the things about my personality that is unique. Then she [...]

Posted 17 February 2008 † Alarming Female § Amused ‡ Comments (7) °