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Orange Vision

I sit, holding an orange in a sunny room alone as my family moves around me.  One of those weird moments in which I feel as though I am here but not here.  The sunlight hits my back and casts my shadow across the floor, but I have been rendered seemingly invisible in my …Orange Vision


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    Blue Joy Underwear?

    My father-in-law, who is a mechanical engineer and who is more than a little bit computer and internet-savvy, recently expressed his concern.  I can’t quote him exactly, because he expressed the concern to his son Mark instead of to me.  And getting a phone message through Mark is like being on the end of …Blue Joy Underwear?

    Raspberry Hulk

    I met with Kallan’s teacher yesterday.

    Have you ever been in the middle of something that is going spectacularly badly?  Something that you meant to go well, and that will all work out in the end, but right now, right in the middle of it, it’s just horrific?  And you know that if you …Raspberry Hulk

    Identical in message, but with hidden meaning

    Kallan’s teacher seems like a very nice woman, but Kallan is not clicking with her.  At all.  Yesterday, Kallan came home with the sad story of how someone’s cell phone had rung during class, and how the teacher sourly identified the offender as Kallan.  All of the backpacks (in which cell phones must be …Identical in message, but with hidden meaning

    Hamster balls of anger

    New rule: Sleepovers at which children do not actually sleep must be held on Friday evening so that there is time to make a complete recovery before Monday morning.

    Kallan woke up this morning, made her way down the stairs and into the kitchen, and then laid down on the kitchen floor and began …Hamster balls of anger