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I MISS TRAVEL

Oh, I MISS TRAVEL. It is not important in the grand scheme of things (stay home, stay safe, flatten the curve!), but these photos sting a little right now. San Francisco, taking the ferry to Sausalito to visit Alex Gurevich‘s family.

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Clearing Out Photos

I was clearing out my phone photos, and realized that I never posted these photos, which I’d hoped to use to advertise upcoming book launch events at these Bay Area stores, sigh. That was such a nice day, walking around with Jed and having lunch and talking to bookstore people. (And later Alex in Sausalito…) All three of these

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Weedy?

A landscaper once tried to talk me out of planting a forsythia shrub because he said it was ‘weedy’. I don’t know what he meant by that, but I think he meant that it grows in a kind of chaotic way, and can be a little higgledy-piggledy in the garden. I’m okay with a little

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Pick Me! Pick Me!

I have to admit, one of the things I love about hyacinths is that they flop over after a bit — it’s as if they’re shouting at you, “Pick me, pick me!” And then you cut them and bring them into the house and put them in vases and it smells like spring.

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Executive Function Fail

I’m having so much executive function fail these days. It’s tough. I’m physically clumsier too — yesterday, I kept bumping into things, almost breaking things, etc. But I can cope with that — the big frustration is when I can’t seem to think clearly, and so I do things wrong, and then they have to

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