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Month: June 2001

An Ode to Fruits and Vegetables

An Ode to Fruits and Vegetables

I think I may have been the ideal child. I usually did as I was told, I got good grades, and I ate my vegetables. Heck. I loved my vegetables, and I loved fruit even more. Growing up, I ate tons of vegetables and fruit. In fact, I usually preferred them to meat, bread, and dairy products. Everything from bok choy to Chinese cabbage, okra and even spinach, I loved. My favorites were onions and mushrooms, and probably the only…

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Sleepless Beauty

Sleepless Beauty

I often think in analogies. I can’t help it. If someone starts to tell me about something, anything — a particular experience, a person’s foibles — my mind goes off on convoluted tangets and tries to compare the one thing to another thing entirely. To most others, the two things will seem to be completely unrelated, but my mind absolutely insists that there’s a bridge across that ravine and simply hops on over. See what I mean? It’s a curse,…

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