Behind the Ironic Column

Today was not a day I had scheduled to have blood drawn.  Those days come fairly frequently but not usually on a nice Friday morning.  My body, however, seemed to have other plans. I was making another in my ongoing series of attempts to manage the paper jumbled around my desk.  ...

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If there were medals for the art of procrastination, I’d be right up there at the top.  That is if I could persuade myself that it was worth entering the contest before the medals were actually awarded.  I’ve been telling myself I was going to write this essay for several ...

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You just have to start to wonder when someone emphatically states something they would “never” do – especially when you didn’t ask the question or even imply that you could have imagined they would do such a thing.  The preemptive denial – used by many people in politics – is ...

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If I’d just go ahead and read the books I’m going to read and dispose of (through passing them to other people, returning them to their rightful owners, or giving them to a charity), then I’d have room on my shelves for the ones I’m not going to read but ...

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