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    Sky-High Adventures in Social Distancing

    September 30, 2020 /No Comments

    Dropping my sons at DFW during COVID. The airport was a ghost town. The ex texted me an hour after the boys already had — clearly expecting to start a fight. Didn't work.

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    COVID Diaries Day 200 – New Habits, New Normal?

    September 29, 2020 /No Comments

    What things do I wish that would stick around from the COVID experience? I came across this question on Twitter and it got me thinking. The comments, as expected, were divided between appreciation for the evolved human response to a pandemic, to the ignorant disdain for anything that required accepting any personal responsibility in preventing the spread of the virus. 

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    Love is Dead – Casualty of the Divorce

    September 6, 2020 /No Comments

    I wanted the opposite of what my mother had. Instead I ended up in somewhat the same place — and I'm not trying again.

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    The Mother of All Resentment

    August 31, 2020 /No Comments

    Lunch with my mother brings up all kinds of resentment. Reminders that my mother is a narcissist.

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    More Adventures in Social Distancing

    August 29, 2020 /No Comments

    Pedicures, a reopened Alamo Drafthouse, and physically dragging La Llorona away from strangers who don't want her in their six-foot bubble.

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