15 Feb, 2009
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Blogher, the wonderful Web site for women on all topics, stages, and places in life (and umm, by the way, please clickity click on the ad in the box to the right of this post and the recommended reading below it, brought to you by the one and the same blogher peeps) has introduced and suggested this meme (suggested themes for writing, especially electronically):
Write a letter to your heart
And so it begins… it turns out I had a lot to say: Read the rest of this entry »
13 Jun, 2008
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Really? Really, universe? Did this have to be?
Did it have to be Father’s Day weekend, Friday the 13th, out of nowhere, without warning.
How many truly great men do we have to lose? How can we have an election without him?
Adieu, Tim Russert, great journalist, great man, kind person, Washintonian at core, man of the people (I saw him on the Metro. A lot. He always said hello and smiled.)
My heart is sunken. Truly.