Alone With Oneself
April 17th, 2007
This blog is dedicated to African American poet, Otis O’Solomon.
I heard Otis speak recently. He read from one of his poems titled Honesty Poem and I thought it beautiful, touching, and insightful. Here is an excerpt:
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Point of Difference
April 9th, 2007
Yesterday was Easter Sunday so it made sense that I saw a woman wearing a fancy hat.
But the actual hat didn’t make much sense at all.
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Hair Today
March 26th, 2007
It is not only we girls who are obsessed with what to do with our unwanted, unruly hairs.
Whether to trim, pluck, shave, wax, or laser etc. etc., this is the new millennium enquiry amongst both sexes.
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Good Enough
March 20th, 2007
I saw a bloke in a white business shirt, red bow tie and suspenders commuting the other morning in a black Saab with a bumper sticker that read, “Failure is Not an Option.”
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March Forward
March 12th, 2007
You know what I love about the northern hemisphere - namely living in the middle of America squished up against the Rocky Mountains - the seasonal extremes.
A few weeks ago Boulder resembled a frozen tundra scene from Dr. Zhivago, and now, with the early advent of daylight saving, we’re in the throws of spring, i.e. the snow has melted, the temperature is warmer, and there’s thawing dog shit everywhere.
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Date, Step Aside
March 5th, 2007
It seems the paparazzi have a way with words, not just cameras.
Apparently, in order for freelance photographers to snap shots of celebrities independent of their non-celebrity escorts, it is not uncommon for them to sing out,
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Noise D’Jour
February 26th, 2007
The 1994 Australian film, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, celebrated “a c… in a frock on a rock.” Last night, the Academy Awards red-carpet gowns celebrated ‘rocks on frocks’!
The ‘c…s’, a.k.a. blokes, in their standard-issue dinner suits created a pleasantly neutral backdrop for the ornamented evening dresses favored by many this year.
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Hang’n out with the Mystery
February 19th, 2007
I think I have a secret admirer.
For two years in a row now, I’ve received an anonymous Valentine’s Day communiqué via snail mail.
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Candle in the Wind
February 12th, 2007
Last week a legend was born out of the ashes of an infamous life.
Blonde and bosomy bombshell, Anna Nicole Smith, imploded mysteriously as the lifeline from her public persona to her authentic self, disconnected permanently.
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Good Times
February 5th, 2007
Even though today is relatively warm, this winter in Boulder “Global Warming” is a phenomenon happening somewhere else.
For almost two months now we’ve been living the frozen-Russian-tundra scene from Dr. Zhivago. On the sub-zero days life has felt similarly tortured, though (from my perspective) not nearly as romantic.
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