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Where I was last week. The lake, the lake! You may remember my bravado from such posts as No Excuses, where I asserted with vigor that nothing was going to stop me now. I meant it when I said it, but in my amnesiac optimism I forgot that in the weeks before my Stelara injection [...] Last weekend I spent a thousand hours in the car with my loving family, driving to my beautiful stepdaughter’s high school graduation. I suppose I could tell you about what I learned from being trapped in a car with four children ranging in age from irrational toddler to far more irrational teen (hint: it’s further down toward [...] The cake, however, is a lie. PS I posted on Gray James today, too. I’ve been thinking a lot about “story,” what with all of this WRITING and what-not, and about the effect we have on narrative, and how narrative affects us. The new History Channel special America: the Story of Us debuted Sunday night and [...] This is how I feel when I'm in the laundry room So, are you all ready for my unveiling? My new and improved laundry room, all neat and tidy and probably with a fresh coat of paint? Too bad. You know, I tried to get behind this challenge, I really did. Wait, that’s not really true. I [...] What? You don't think I can be wise? So here we are at the finish line for this first Full Plate challenge. At our last weigh- in I was 3.5 pounds away from victory, so I suppose I should sigh and confess that I haven’t won. However, I am the current champion in magical thinking, [...] OR, Some True Things, Some Gross Things, and the Heartbreak of Psoriasis. Not a photo of psoriasis. That would be vulgar. This post isn’t about diet. It’s only tangentially about exercise, but it IS about health! And a terrible secret. Five years ago, spots, each the size of a pea, appeared at the center of the [...] In our infinite—okay, nearly infinite—collective wisdom, we here at Five Full Plates have decided that as part of our endeavor we should do a weekly check-in to see where we’re all at, and what we’ve learned in the past week. Congratulations to us and to everyone who’s playing along at home: We have officially reached [...] In our infinite—okay, nearly infinite—collective wisdom, we here at Five Full Plates have decided that as part of our endeavor we should do a weekly check-in to see where we’re all at, and what we’ve learned in the past week. The five of us are in universal agreement that Week Four sucked hairy donkey balls. [...] |
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