My parents called me tonight to remind me that it was a year ago today that Jenn called them to say I’d been brought into the hospital in a diabetic coma. My condition was “stable,” but though Jenn knew that was better than the condition under which I’d been brought in, the doctor on duty […]
Ian and Stephanie bought this little house here in Ohio and they’ve been fixing it up since they moved in back in September. It wasn’t a shithole, but it wasn’t exactly the tidiest, most up to date place on the block. They replaced all of the windows, tore up all the carpet and had the
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Ian and I are going to Home Depot to pick up paste and paint rollers to finish the drywall work the contractors did upstairs. “OK,” Ian says, “Do you have a stopwatch?” “Um, no?” “OK, we can just use my cell phone.” We get in the truck and he hands me his cell phone. He
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“In this fucked up society we’re living in, many socially progressive poor folks have to sacrifice their ideals in order to keep a roof over their heads, and while it’s tempting to redefine the work you’re doing as progressive in and of itself because it’s keeping you alive, well, it’s not.”
The new conservatives wished to impose not only British laws but also western values on India. The country would be not only ruled but redeemed. Local laws which offended Christian sensibilities were abrogated – the burning of widows, for instance, was banned. One of the East India Company directors, Charles Grant, spoke for many when
Numbers for the last four days: 1087494 1049958 9511373 1178567 Now *that’s* more like it. Looks like I can drop my Lantus dose from 18 u back down to 16 again, too, to prevent that evening low.
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“I have something to say about the recent Supreme Court decision that upheld the ban on late-term abortions, whether or not the pregnancy endangers the woman’s life. I’m a pragmatic contextual ethicist with a spiritual sensibility, and I cannot be silent. I cannot pretend that I don’t understand the next step in this game. If
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