a heartbreaking weblog
An Alcoholic’s Wife is a weblog by the wife of an alcoholic. She pulls no punches about how difficult it is. She’s only got five posts so far, but it’s honest and painful and amazing. The writer is very brave…
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Goodbye, Angeltown
In my last year at college, I learned a phrase in Italian which I can actually repeat in a public forum (unlike the ones I learned from my family — thanks, Grandma!). The phrase is “Partire e un po di…
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July stinks
It used to be that February was the disaster month. Everything bad in my family happened in February. My Patient Husband’s experience was different: bad things happened in October. Emily Rose was diagnosed with anencephaly on February 28th, 2000, and…
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The fine art of kicking a dead horse
I’ve had this conversation with two different people, and I’m finding it hard to believe the business world really operates this way. Please enlighten. I expressed surprise that a publishing house would re-consider a book nixed by a single high-powered…
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I can’t think
Last Thursday saw the death knell of my laptop. The hard drive began to sing, and singing turned into whining, and whining turned into grinding, and all in the course of about five minutes. The laptop doctor will have it…
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Partly-cloudy world
On Monday evening, after my very generous readers offered up thirty-five comments full of good things for Dotty, the evil in the world began making sense to me. Even Thomas Aquinas admitted that the existence of suffering is the best…
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Good things for Dotty
A regular poster on one of my online groups is enduring a lot of family hardships right now. She’s a gentle and generous soul, and much loved by everyone there. She posted in asking if there’s really any good in…
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Keeping the change
Ivy can now stop mocking me relentlessly on her KnitSpirit podcast. I have spent my gift certificate to my local yarn store. She said on her program a couple of weeks ago that it was unfathomable that someone could have…
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Dear Homeowners…
Dear Homeowners: I don’t want to move away from Angeltown, but today we looked at your home in Angelville. Your home has been big on my mind ever since my Patient Husband showed me your listing. It’s beautiful. I loved…
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Reflections on…reflections
I went through an old journal and found an entry that’s something you’ve come to expect from Drizzle, and yet it came out of my head back on 4/11/2006. I’m at karate, looking into the windows from outside. The light…
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