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In This World: Force Home
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Well, I've gone and done it. I went back to ultimate last night after a 3-year hiatus. There's a regular pick-up game in the area, and.wait, what? You mean the kind of ultimate where half the people are in running shoes, there is rarely a semblance of an offensive or defensive strategy, and everyone is just running around aimlessly? Would I remember the rules? And most terrifyingly.would I even be able to keep pace with the people at pick-up? I know that playing improves my mental health by orders of mag...
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In This World: October 2014
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I had my last pregnancy, my last labor, my last first week with a newborn. And I'm so excited to have it behind me! Alexa Hokulani was born 9 days ago, and no surprise, looks just like her daddy and brothers. I had hoped that I'd get at least one that looked like me, but nope, not gonna happen. She's healthy, though, and that's way more important because it's hard not to worry about things when you're pregnant (or not pregnant, if you're me! Off I go, to my one and only daughter, who, for the record, has...
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In This World: The Wrong Body
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I think I'm starting to understand why people have sexual reassignment surgery. It always seemed like a strange concept to me that someone born a woman felt so strongly that she was a man that she would have surgery to make her one. Not that I condemn it or anything, I just could never really understand what it meant to feel like I was living in the wrong body. But I realize that one of the things that I struggle with is not altogether different from someone who is transsexual. Of course, I'll go on doin...
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Up!: 11.2003
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Last day of class. chirripo had reached its climbing capacity, evidently, but they cheerfully offered to make a reservation in january. instead, we're going to stay in little cabins on drake bay. Named after the sir francis who allegedly landed there to bury treasure. And even though the coffee will be worse, at least i won't have to eat rice and beans for breakfast. Links to this post. I am grateful for it all and for the chance to have it. Links to this post. When asked if they know my name. And then i...
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Up!: 01.2004
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Have - and only because i was wearing my superwoman underwear - is soup all over the floor. instead, we have an amazing and uncharacteristically-coordinated soup-dance-of-salvation, and a round of applause from several customers who were lucky enough to witness it instead of being plastered with two bowls full of fragrant split pea with plentiful pit-smoked ham soup. Not everyone was so lucky. Links to this post. I have to call people and make plans and be a professional adult. i have an office with ...
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In This World: August 2013
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So many colleges have those outdoor/orientation programs for incoming freshman. You hike, you kayak, (you knit, at some schools), and you talk. You meet your forever friends. The ones you call when you're 46 and relive that time you almost got sprayed by that skunk when you first entered the Hundred Mile Wilderness. But what if you're the daughter of the guy who set off the explosives at the Boston Marathon? Do you sit in the campfire circle and invent a story about who your parents are (or aren't)?
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In This World: June 2014
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I've had a story to tell. Probably for the last twenty or so years. I spent most of 2006 and 2007 trying to write a novel. 400 pages in and I scrapped it. I've been journaling for.um.let's see.since I had one of those journals that actually came with a lock and key. 5th, 6th grade. I started this blog six years ago, but mostly to tell another story. Every few years, I start to try to write my story. And every time, I scrap it. I think for so long I was trying to tell this story for someone else. I feel u...
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In This World: December 2012
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Probably the worst part of waiting is the boredom. I'm working from home these days, in fear that I'll go into labor in my office. And no one wants to go into labor in an office full of computer programmers. Is there a UNIX command for "Holy crap, this is awkward? Okay, dude. For real. We're ready to meet you. (And your uncle says this is a convenient weekend for them to come meet you, so that certainly trumps everything.). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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In This World: January 2013
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All kidding aside, it's 10 degrees below 0 right now. The wood stove is blazing AND we have the heat set to kick on should the wood stove not be cutting it. And, frankly, even though my thermostat seems to be at peace, I don't think the wood stove is doing a particularly wonderful job of keeping me from putting on a parka inside my house. For today, though, I think I'll be okay with laying in bed, under a thick blanket, and just staying warm with my baby. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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In This World: AHZ
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I had my last pregnancy, my last labor, my last first week with a newborn. And I'm so excited to have it behind me! Alexa Hokulani was born 9 days ago, and no surprise, looks just like her daddy and brothers. I had hoped that I'd get at least one that looked like me, but nope, not gonna happen. She's healthy, though, and that's way more important because it's hard not to worry about things when you're pregnant (or not pregnant, if you're me! Off I go, to my one and only daughter, who, for the record, has...
