Monthly Archives: July 2012

Blinders, Part I

Posted on July 30, 2012 by epiphanettes

There were still horse-drawn carts when I grew up in Paris. The hooves made clopping sounds on the cobblestones, and the horses were not the sleek and shiny beasts of movies and race tracks. Instead, they were weary animals bedeviled … Continue reading →

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Surgery, etc.

Posted on July 24, 2012 by epiphanettes

On Thursday at 9:15 in the morning an anesthesiologist will insert an IV into a largish vein in the crook of my left elbow and pump into me an elegant mélange of chemicals that will knock me out. I will … Continue reading →

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Bang. You’re Dead

Posted on July 22, 2012 by epiphanettes

Oh hum, another massacre, in Colorado, was it? How many this time, 12, and half-a-hundred wounded? And last time, where was it, Arizona? Michigan? Ah, the all-American horror. People with guns shooting down innocents in public venues has become as … Continue reading →

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Glorious Food

Posted on July 20, 2012 by epiphanettes

  To eat is a necessity. To eat intelligently is an art.  La Rochefoucauld There is no love sincerer than the love of food.George Bernard Shaw Supersize Me.Morgan Spurlock In America, the best way to become invisible is to be … Continue reading →

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Proust and Me

Posted on July 18, 2012 by epiphanettes

Marcel Proust, the French writer whose Remembrances of Things Past (A la recherche du temps perdu) ranks high in Western culture as a book everyone quotes and no one honestly reads, writes of tasting a Madeleine and being transported back … Continue reading →

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Slice of Life

Posted on July 12, 2012 by epiphanettes

I am at the 7-11, running late for a meeting but wanting coffee nevertheless. I am tired. It is not yet ten in the morning and already the heat has hit 90.  Two Latino gentlemen are at the coffee bar. … Continue reading →

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And Meanwhile in the Ukraine

Posted on July 8, 2012 by epiphanettes

I haven’t given much thought to the Ukraine recently or, to be honest, ever. I’ve wondered idly why it’s the Ukraine, because I don’t think anyone wants to take the name away, or that there are a Greater Ukraine and … Continue reading →

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Famous People

Posted on July 5, 2012 by epiphanettes

I’m standing at the checkout line of my local market with a single baking potato, two bags of overpriced lettuce, and a hydroponically grown tomato that costs two dollars, which is a lot of money for red water. The woman … Continue reading →

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The Storm

Posted on July 3, 2012 by epiphanettes

And so it occurred that a great wind called a derecho came out of nowhere, or so claimed authorities who should know, and this wind tore through the neighborhoods and projects of Virginia, WashingtonDC and Maryland, inflicting great harm upon … Continue reading →

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