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25 More Things I’ve Learned in Life So Far: Wisdumb For the Ages

by Karen Z. unless otherwise noted. 26. Always shake the ketchup bottle. 27. The following things should always be able to kick your ass: ginger, whiskey, love and coffee. If they’re not, they’re not strong enough. 28. Low-hanging fruit is for the lazy and cowardly. Within challenges, risks and uncertainties lay the best rewards. 29. [...]

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25 Things I’ve Learned in Life So Far: Wisdumb For the Ages

by Karen Z. unless otherwise noted. 1. Always smile and say hello to those you pass on a hiking trail. You have something important in common. 2. Learn how to tell time by the sun’s location or a clock tower’s toll. Time is not on your wrist. 3. Always wear your eye glasses on a [...]

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Wordful Wednesday

Wordful Wednesday features bon mots, quibbles and spiel I encounter that make me feel something enough to take out my pad. In conversation, in passing, in email, or my own writing prompts, inspired by lord knows what.. Kind of like a Texts From Last Night for the more articulate and uninebriated. Without further adieu… the [...]

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Wordful Wednesday

Today: Lexington is a clash of urban forces: commuter, college, hospital, residential. The union of too much utility like a complex flow chart of boxes and arrows that only serves to confuse. It is here where I lose her. Tomorrow: Today she has much on her mind. Sees no one around her. Her hair is [...]

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Wordful Wednesday

I am amazed by language… at our attempts to convey (or conceal) the machinery inside our skulls, the hums and gurgling, poking and prodding, the “Ma…Ma…Ma…/tugging at the shirt combination of the voice inside. And how this translates in speech, the loss and gain in this process, the words in silence, the words in the [...]

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