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• Step Away from the Keyboard 8 years ago Still alive. Still kicking, at least metaphorically. Since taking up yoga, I've discovered that kicking requires something called core muscles, which I apparently don't have. I've stepped back from the Internet some, people. It's just been so damn ugly out there. Thus the yoga. It's supposed to...
• Words Fail Me: Legend of Zorro 9 years ago Sometimes a single word in one one language can represent multiple words in another.Esperar, for example, can mean1.) to wait for2.) to hope3.) to expect4.) to look forward toSeriously? Way to mess me up, Spanish.Come on. Different concepts here. Maybe you expected me to be a slackass and...
• Lucidly Dreaming (Part II) 9 years ago (You'll either want to start with Part I or just revel in the lost, confused feeling. Totally your choice.)I've never figured out the why, who, or anything else about the Violent Bad Guy dreams. I can never see the face. There are no features, just dark, like a shadow, like just nothing there. He's...
• Lucidly Dreaming 9 years ago So the subjects of sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming have come up, what with so many of you writing about ghosts and weird dreams of late. I haven't experienced sleep paralysis (probably just jinxed myself), but I do have a lucid dreaming story. I know. Cue scornful eye roll. When I first heard of...
• I Need to Address This 9 years ago When the esposo was merely a pre-esposo and we were courting a través la distancia (bumbling about in a long-distance relationship), the misunderstandings due to culture and language happened even more often than they do now, and it usually took us longer to realize it.Pretty much.The esposo is a...

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