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Fat

(FFirst in a Series) Take two large boneless chicken breasts – uncooked – out of the refrigerator and lay them end to end on the kitchen counter.  Then place your hands on them, one hand to a breast, and squeeze. That is what my belly feels like. On either side of my torso, the bunched-up […]

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Driver Re-Education

If this country were run by the DMV, things would shape up in no time.   You know this if you have ever tried to argue with the rules and regulations set by the state with regard to auto registration, licensing, emissions inspections – or if you have recently tried to get away with not […]

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First in a series

This defies a category, in my opinion.  First, read this… New Jersey kids win $500,000 settlement after being forced to eat on school’s gym floor By NBC News staff and wire reports Seven students forced to eat lunch on their New Jersey school’s gymnasium floor for two weeks as punishment won a $500,000 legal settlement, […]

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A poem about poetry

Ffrankly, I’m tired of poems that have no rhyme or rhythm, as though putting prose in an artistic arrangement on the page makes it poetry. Not that good prose is easy to write. It’s not. . But the beauty of building love, despair, or exuberance in a place that has rules, well, that demands that […]

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