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• Setting Your Pillow on Fire will Not Get You What You Want

  August 31, 2022

  After the third day without hot water, I set my pillow on fire to attract the attention of this gas man.  This did not go as I intended.     To understand this you need a bit  of background. Household gas service in Ecuador  is not piped into the house, instead it is delivered by…

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• Hot Boxers! Get your Hot,Steamy Boxers, HERE!!!

  August 1, 2022

  My second day in Cuenca, Ecuador I found myself microwaving my husband's underwear. The microwave has become my new clothes dryer. It has been said that living in Ecuador is a lot like camping, you improvise. The Airbnb is typical of many Ecuadorian homes, there's a washing machine, but no dryer....

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• Mommy’s under the Christmas Tree, Get the Net.

  December 5, 2021

  I have been living the life of the adult child of an aging parent , and like the programs that I re-watch on Netflix I find myself wanting to fast forward because I  want to get to the end: I have better things to do. Currently my mother and I are living in a world…

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• Motorcycle Parts in the Oven, Rocks in the Microwave

  May 30, 2020

  I have turned into a woman who has favorite dish towels. Without stains they sit freshly folded (and hidden) from my husband.  The critical words in that last sentence are “without stains and hidden”, because I married a man who cooks motorcycle parts in my oven. This begs the question what parts...

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• Cilantro Forest

  May 26, 2020

  The cilantro has  sprouted into an ant sized orchard of green, inch high sprigs.  Luckily I sowed the seeds in neat little rows so that they would not be mistaken for weeds. The nursery purchased plants are faring 1 for 2,  half of the stock expiring. Currently one of the nursery cilantro plants ...

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• Holding Pattern

  May 7, 2020

  I am SO ready to get back to work.  These past 7 weeks have felt like when your are visiting relatives and your flight leaves at 3:00, afraid to start anything you might enjoy so you just sort of dawdle and pace. Mentally it has been daunting.  My unemployment funds are caught in adjudication hel...

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• Free Range Reading Glasses

  May 1, 2020

  (Imagine reading this with your best best David Attenborough voice.) Here in the domestic terrarium of pandemic quarantine we see the the inhabitant hunting and  gathering.  This morning is the ritual search not for food, but for  her free range reading glasses.  Due to the recent shopping drough...

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• Breathing Lessons

  May 22, 2018

  The suicide note arrived by text mid-afternoon on an otherwise unremarkable day.  Sadly, typical of my friend Gregg.  I call his cell to talk him off the ledge and get an automated recording telling me that his mail box is full.  Also typical.  I try many times. Then I wait. I first met Gregg whe...

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