3.30.2005

smokin

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I'm gone, so out of there (the winter, I mean). Headed south. I'm sure I'll get pissed off about something along the way, and I...
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3.29.2005

roads not taken

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I love maps. All kinds of maps—topgraphical, climate zone, street maps, continental maps. Right now I'm looking at road maps. I'm si...
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3.28.2005

reach out and touch

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"Mom, can you tell me how to do Jacob's Ladder over the phone? I'm going crazy here." Phone clutched to my shoulder, I tie...
3.26.2005

our crown of thorns

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The most pagan of all our holidays is upon us. The fertility festival that, in the northern hemisphere, is the time of planting the seed. He...
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3.25.2005

that's cold

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Originally uploaded by big head . Eskimo kids smoking, 1918
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3.24.2005

my precious life

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I've got an idea, let's keep everybody alive as long as we possibly can. Take me, for instance. When the ticker starts to give out,...
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3.23.2005

boss lady

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Every week there is some new disaster in my cleaning lady's life. The granddaughter who's mouthing off at school. The son whose poli...
3.22.2005

nightwork

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Sleep can be so exhausting. The body checks all its systems—temperature control, fluids, mechanical systems-and runs through the programming...
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3.21.2005

smokin'

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photograph by Chien-Chi Chang/Magnum Photos
3.18.2005

our president

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Gobsmacked is the term I'm looking for, I believe. Yesterday the cops were soliciting my support, today it's Republicans. Is this fo...
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3.17.2005

getting the irish up

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It's St. Patricks Day, and for some reason my mind turns to the most recent call I got from the Policeman's Benevolent Association w...
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3.16.2005

negative attitude

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photograph by Sam Scholes

country media

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The Michael Jackson thing finally put me over the edge: I am boycotting the New York Post. Mind you, I do love gossip. I mean, once upon a ...
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3.14.2005

for god's sake

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In the dream I was attending sabbath services at a synagogue with my husband. When I woke, I wondered why, since I'm neither married to ...
3.12.2005

nasty habits

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I was under the impression that if parents smoked, their rebellious children seldom did. Or vice-versa in my case. It was a comforting impre...
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3.10.2005

speaker phones

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Today is the anniversary of the first phone call. There are now some 531 million telephone numbers in the U.S. You got your pagers, your cel...
3.09.2005

ungrateful readers

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So far I have made 12 cents on this blog. That's because you people don't click on the ads. Maybe you don't want to stop smoking...
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3.08.2005

magazine issues

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I don't know if you've noticed, but general interest publications are pretty much over. The Economist is the only one I read with a...
3.04.2005

puffmama

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Just hang onto it. I'm too traumatized at the moment to do anything but smoke, but I'll do the reveal one of these times before too ...
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3.03.2005

those darn editors

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Have you heard the one about a writer and an editor standing on the bank of a river with the sunset reflecting off the crystal torrent? The ...
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