… or y’all, for my southern readers. What you see above is one of my favorite places—at my computer, with you, emailing with you, IMing with you, writing for you, reading your posts and comments, drinking my tea and enjoying the pleasure of your company.
When I started this blog, it was as a woman thrashing, [...]
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An assortment of things in my head right now…
I am enjoying the new/old chair with the fancy upholstered seat my friend L. re-cycled to me after getting a new dining set. It’s just the right height and depth for sitting at the table with my legs up on the chair across from me, while [...]
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White, closeup, two, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
I had the chance to meet up with Sara of Moving Right Along (and her equally amazing friends Dena and Sylvia) on Sunday at my own Jamaica Plain’s Arnold Arboretum. Sara got to break in her new prosthetic leg, earned with battle scars after her most recent cancer-go-round, [...]
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, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
I love tulips. I love spring. More encompassing, however, I love color– riotous color, that isn’t prissy, restrained, or proper. I’ve spent so much of my life in periods of depression that were charcoal grey, sooty, greasy, heavy, light-obscuring. Color is a jolt to my system, a [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Tea at Tea & Cookies has some nice green ideas for food storage, soap replacement, and other simple means of greening your living over at this post.
If you have other suggestions or links, please post and/or link them in comments and I will do a roundup post in a week or two, along with re-running the [...]
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An article in the Boston Globe today about the exoneration of a mentally ill, homeless man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for a sex crime he did not commit. This is why there should always be publicly-funded defenders– because it’s never too late to admit you’ve made a mistake when it comes to civil liberties, much [...]
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Posted in flickr, food, links, photos on April 28, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Twinkie Ice Cream, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
Dessert at Herrell’s Ice Cream in Harvard Square. Delicious, really. Mmmm, Twinkies.
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Some ideas for being a more informed and informative patient today: Knowing is half the battle.
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Teaching, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
Every year, schedule permitting, I judge the same mock trials in which I took part as a civil clinic student at Boston University School of Law. I learned more about lawyering and human nature in that year-long class than in any other course I took in law school. In many [...]
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Sparkling Lemon Laxative, originally uploaded by BipolarLawyerCook.
Mmm, laxative. Well, at least it cheered me up. I thought I was having a bad day, and then I realized, at least I didn’t need this!
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