Tag: deep thoughts
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Wisdom from The Doctor
Impossible Astronaut Day was the 23rd. I kept finding these weird marks on my arm, but the only thing I heard was silence… Here are eleven things I have learned from The Doctor: The least important things sometimes, my dear boy, lead to the greatest discoveries. 1st Doctor Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one…
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Thoughts on Boston, Editorial Choices, and why I’m choosing not to look.
This has been stewing in my mind for a couple of days, so you’ll have to bear with me. The whole world is aware of the bombings that took place two days ago at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Thanks to this age of social media, in which everyone has a phone and…
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Winter in a red ball gown– my Traveling Red Dress story
So, I mentioned in passing (in my last blog entry, actually) that some of the photos from my trip to the North Carolina Outer Banks were taken while I was wearing a red ball gown. I said I’d come back to that. This is me coming back to that. There is a movement called the…
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Life Lessons from the Zoo
I realized today that I have learned several important Life Lessons from my time spent at various zoo and animal-related places. Here are some of them. Easy humor is not the same as smart humor and usually not clever or original. Put some thought into it. (Just today I got the oh-so-clever line, “And what…
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Alrighty Then: pop culture references that… don’t.
Recently I’ve started paying attention to various ways our everyday language is strange (being in a place where people commonly don’t quite understand one another even though we can all speak “English” does that to you). Our use of expressions and idioms, for instance, must confuse some people not from the US to no end.…
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Walking Through a Water Wonderland
Saturday I went for a walk at the air force base and used my phone* to photograph what I saw.
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Candy Corn Confessional
There are a lot of things from childhood (and even from early adulthood) about which I feel a certain nostalgia. These things range from the $.05 candies (always “tutti frutti”) at the corner store in Edisto when I was 6 to being in Chapel Hill for Halloween during college. In both of these cases, as…
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Love in a Coffee Cup
So, this happened today. I’m doing okay, really. I think I am in complete denial about the whole thing, to be honest. We’ll see how I am two weeks from now. In the meantime, I have a little story about yesterday. If you know my husband at all, you know that he is what I…
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Unrequited Wrong Number Love
I was awakened around one in the morning to a text message that I only half noticed. I’m used to getting messages at odd times, either because people forget that my time zone is however many hours behind theirs, or from organizations that I want to hear information and they message me based on my…
Joanna Volavka 