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My regular doc I see annually is old school and old country. Until a few years ago, he operated a solo private practice as an internist, although to survive in the U.S. healthcare dystopia, he’s now been swallowed up by a larger health network, as has almost every other physician and medical practice.   But […]

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I’m packing my toiletry bag for the weekend visit with my parents when I realize my pills are gone. How could I have run out and not noticed? When was the last time I took one? Weeks ago. I haven’t needed them, not since returning from our vacation. But now I miss them, not because […]

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Yes, I went to the Spectrum Theater to see “Train Dreams” the other night, but I attended with a heavy heart: The Delmar Dad’s Movie Club lasted exactly one year, and then, without warning, blew up spectacularly. First, Jimmy broke up with us via text: “We did a year and it was good. But I’m […]

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I haven’t written a blog post in some time. I’ve been on the road without my laptop for the first time. Now I’m back at my desk. I don’t have a reputation as an avid traveler, nor have I ever been a travel writer, but I just returned from Peru with Harriet and Owen, and […]

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One is black and white striped, like a zebra with gills, another is green and flat as a lily pad. They fin past me, undulating in the clear water. Pink and beige corals fleck the ocean floor. A cartoonish blue and yellow fish with bulging eyes loiters beneath a rock, its mouth puckering for invisible […]

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Lyrics: KleinMusic: Aronowitz Coming Over Coming over to your placeWhatever the consequenceCan’t wait a minute longerSitting on this fence Coming over to your placeUnder a clever pretenseMight have left my life thereUnless that’s too intense What happened to our special daysEach passed in luminanceSaid we’re meant for each otherOr was that just coincidence Coming over […]

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I had yesterday’s “No Kings” protest on my calendar for weeks, knowing I would attend. I told myself the day might prove to be a turning point for our country: that any incited violence would cause Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would serve as the final nail in the coffin destroying whatever democratic […]

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We’ve all pressed the reset button to restart a device or system that is unresponsive or malfunctioning. It’s a go-to fix for a multitude of issues. I’ve gotten better at resetting myself when I start to malfunction. When anxious or emotionally drained or feeling lost, I’ve learned to pause, step back, and intentionally return to […]

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After she leaves for work, I change into running gear and strap my watch on. Some days I run randomly around the neighborhood, up and down blocks of neatly arranged houses, skimpy lawns covered with frosted leaves that never got raked, streets lined with parked cars. Other days I run down to the river, the […]

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In this dark moment in our country’s history, stained by a corrupt administration that lies to, threatens, extorts, and punishes its own people, that cleaves divisions among us, that celebrates bigotry and cruelty, that instead of serving people it cuts services to people in need—within this anxious moment, there is still sublimebeauty, there is October. […]

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