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Vignette No. 1

nobody@vox.com(thebitterlinguist) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:21:12 -0700

OPENING SCENE: So on our way up to Ladyparts, WI last weekend we stopped in Eau Claire (where my third son is interred) to pay our respects at the mausoleum. When we got there I realized I was ill-prepared...I had not picked up any flowers for h...

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Tatt Ho

nobody@vox.com(thebitterlinguist) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:52:54 -0700

Am recovering from quite a weekend. In the last six months I have been working with a non-profit started by a woman in my community whose daughter was murdered by her abusive boyfriend. (If you want to read more pick up this month's issue o...

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Back from the Abyss

nobody@vox.com(thebitterlinguist) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:06:54 -0700

I have not posted in eons...thot I would wander back and say Howdy Neighbors. My life has changed a bit and getting through that required a lot of my energy. Another divorce folks. Yes me and the Numister hit the skids last Fall. He became pr...

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Shrink wrapped

nobody@vox.com(thebitterlinguist) — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:52:50 -0700

Hey everyone! I took a hiatus this summer basically because I could not think of a darn thing to say. At least that would be at all interesting. And in fact, still cannot. Who knew dealing with all my issues would leave me so....boring? Or at le...

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Do these pants make my labia look fat?

nobody@vox.com(thebitterlinguist) — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:36:16 -0700

If you weren't completely depressed before this rant...please read on to feel the urge to open not one, but every vein in your arm. As if the plastic boob epidemic were not enough...we now have women going under the knife for designer vaginas (I...

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Embraceable you

nobody@vox.com(thebitterlinguist) — Fri, 18 May 2007 11:06:28 -0700

This goes out to all my Voxland perimenopausal girlfriends out there. Read this and then give yourself a snack and or a nap in honor of Who You Are Right Now! Weight management is a little different during perimenopause. Why is that? Wh...

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Can't we all just get along

nobody@vox.com(thebitterlinguist) — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:39:25 -0700

Yesterday I was "talking" with my dearly beloved about the kids, and some of the issues we face as a blended family. Quotation marks are needed because you and I both know it was more like we were fighting like a couple of tipsy seagulls. Skawki...

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Writer's block

nobody@vox.com(thebitterlinguist) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:15:07 -0700

I have been on a hiatus from Vox and feeling badly about it too. But now I am back...too much work related hysteria, and a bit of a dry spell in terms of writing. Will post something soon.

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Trifle with this

nobody@vox.com(thebitterlinguist) — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:15:25 -0700

Lately, kids, I have been taking stock. Mainly because sometimes when I am sitting across from someone who barely knows me, or thinks they know me, or tells me something about myself that they think they have figured out, I am tempted to reach ac...

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I see green when I close my eyes

nobody@vox.com(thebitterlinguist) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:20:27 -0700

WHEW, PEOPLE! I just came up for air after a week and a half of being caught in the swirling vortex that was the introduction of a controversial proposed piece of new legislation. Press conference, media blitz, scheduling nightmare, phone 'n ema...

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