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caveat emptor

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Url:	http://www.aswhite.com/caveatemptor
Author(s):	A. Scott White
Language:	English
Tags:	writing, lies, magic
Description:	A. Scott White's blog.
Ratings	(2 Ratings)
Popularity:	5 Followers

Fierce and Joyful

Today I'm thinking of Susan like this, just after she started treatment when we decided to shave her head because her hair began to fall out aggressively. She's in a long, major surgery t...more

2009-12-11

Brief Note. Oh, So Brief.

Today is traveling day. Packing and driving and whatnot. Last day Susan can eat with an esophagus. She'll not be eating at all for a while now, then she'll have to relearn. So we'll ...more

2009-12-09

On Today. And Tomorrow. Also Susan.

Today loves you, but it's a tough love. It may try to slap some sense into you. Today loves you more than you know. Yesterday misses you. Tomorrow cannot wait to see you. Next year doesn'...more

2009-12-08

Off the Wire Again

Life, good life done well, is like a high wire, like in the circus. Most people struggle to stay on the wire, making a slip from time to time, falling and climbing back up and starting again. There...more

2009-12-07

Growlers

All over the Midwest and even out on the coast, down south and up north, out west, back east, work boots hit the ground every morning. Tool men in pickup trucks and vans in Dickies or blue jeans. S...more

2009-12-04

Never Shop When You're Broken

People have to shop for groceries sometimes, existential crises notwithstanding. Many an enlightenment has occurred, cart handle in hand, on the bread aisle or at the butcher counter. Will you stic...more

2009-12-03

Quality in the Dearth of Quantity

The obvious truth was so heavy in the room, stifling and oppressive, so we all just lied to each other. It seemed the only humane thing to do.Hello, friends. I trust you're well, or will be so...more

2009-12-02

Clever Lies and Unwilling Metaphors

I constantly have to remind myself that well-said often masquerades as true. Sometimes that resonance you feel with the words of another are just an appreciation of form, a purely aesthetic vibe. D...more

2009-12-01

Penultimate Words. Love in the Time of Rockets.

I have developed, in the past five minutes, a curiosity about the penultimate words of dead people of note. It occurs to me, extremely recently, that last words are often words of regret. In those ...more

2009-11-30

If Only I Weren't So Big

In the dream we were at a craggy shore where the waves lapped shallow and gentle at the base of a natural three foot seawall of slowly eroding stony earth. The cold water was clear. Smooth, round s...more

2009-11-24

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