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Category: Musing

Jenny, Riley and the thunder

Posted on May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 by Clay

We took in Jenny and Riley in 2012, after they had a spent a couple of years in the shelter. Best Friends was…

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Bad words III

Posted on March 27, 2017April 17, 2017 by Clay

Meticulous readers will know that I have weighed in before, and before that, on language that confuses or annoys me. I’ve mused about…

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Combing azaleas

Posted on March 19, 2017June 15, 2018 by Clay

Southwest Mississippi business idea: an Azalea-combing service. Very soon after our glorious regional flora explode in color each spring, the flowers wilt and…

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My new blog

Posted on March 17, 2017May 15, 2017 by Clay

This isn’t really a new blog. It’s just that my old blog got a facelift. In the four years since I gave birth…

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Mental music

Posted on January 10, 2017March 17, 2017 by Clay

Mental illness comes in many forms. Mine renders me functional to the extent that I perform enough work to get paid now and…

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Dear Mr. Dukakis

Posted on November 26, 2016March 21, 2017 by Clay

Dear Mr. Dukakis, I read the article about you in the Boston Globe a few days ago. At first I thought just that…

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The Treat Williams dream

Posted on November 8, 2016March 21, 2017 by Clay

In last night’s dream I was lounging in a slouchy, ’50s-teenager kind of way against the corner of a building on the Harvard…

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Bless your heart

Posted on October 1, 2016March 16, 2017 by Clay

People in many regions of the country have their distinctive dialects and colloquialisms. One man’s dinner is another’s supper. Y’all and youse are…

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Hillary’s pneumonia, imagined

Posted on September 12, 2016March 17, 2017 by Clay

H, to Aide: “I feel shitty. Cancel that thing in the morning and get me in to see Dr. Y. Better yet, have…

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Movie kitchens

Posted on July 19, 2016March 25, 2017 by Clay

My friend Rob, whose sharp eye and opinion I respect, put something on Facebook the other day about the kitchens of someone called…

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