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Maj and I are about to play a board game called Sequence.

Maj reaches quickly for the green chips and announces, “I need you to be red this time.”

I am not so inclined, “Nope.  Too Christmassy if all the chips on the board are red and green.  It annoys me.  Plus red is …Best board-game friends


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    Cliff-Notes for Mark

    “Did you read my post?”

    Mark is grinding the coffee beans for the next morning’s coffee, and he is about to head upstairs to bed.  As the noise of the grinder fades, he turns to me, “What?”

    “Did you read the piece I put up?  The one called Beliance?”

    “No.  Let me do that …Cliff-Notes for Mark

    Fictional beliance

    He was always handing her moments out of time.  Awkward ungainly moments he thrust into her arms as she struggled to catch up or slow down or stand still so that she might accommodate his timing.  Their whole relationship was a small misunderstanding repeated in an endless loop, an offered handshake enveloped within an …Fictional beliance

    She will scathe you

    Mother?  I said I didn’t want to go out to dinner . . . I am so sure those actual words came out of my mouth.  But look, here we are going out to dinner because my opinion doesn’t matter at all, apparently.  Plus, I said I did not want to eat Chinese food …She will scathe you

    Flags of hostile surrender

    I am not a new and improved kind of woman.

    If something works, I do not want to hear about how the next version of this perfectly acceptable product will do things I never even knew I was missing.  I do not want to do those things it never occurred to me to want …Flags of hostile surrender