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Sometimes Words Are Everything

Posted by Barely Knit Together on Mar 14, 2009 in A Bit on the Dark Side, Mental Stability

Sometimes, late at night, when it’s dark and quiet and I’m completely alone at last, I think:  maybe I should never have had children.
And my heart clenches and I start to cry and I want to argue with myself that it’s not true, but there is some little, hard, honest place inside of me that [...]

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The Perfect Easter Basket Gift

Posted by Barely Knit Together on Feb 25, 2009 in A Bit on the Dark Side, People Are Idiots

In case you were wondering what I want for Easter this year, or Mother’s Day, or for my best friend’s birthday which is next week, here it is:  the best Barbie ever.
Alfred Hitchcock anyone?
I mean, birds are a sign of spring, right?

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And which action finger would YOU be?

Posted by Barely Knit Together on Feb 18, 2009 in A Bit on the Dark Side

I love super heroes.  There is something about the clarity of the issues in their worlds.  Batman’s never-ending, depression-inducing fight against evil.  Spiderman torn between love and the “great responsibility” that comes with great power.  The ostracism of the X-Men.  Watching them or reading their stories makes me feel a little thrill inside.  Maybe even [...]

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The Long and Winding

Posted by Barely Knit Together on Feb 11, 2009 in A Bit on the Dark Side, Mental Stability

I am fairly open here, from the safety of my dining room table desk, seated in front of my dinosaur laptop.  I suppose I feel a certain amount of anonymity, as everyone seems to on the internet.  But I am also socially retarded, so I often make glib jokes about totally inappropriate things.  Like mental [...]

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It's In Your Best Interest…

Posted by Barely Knit Together on Feb 8, 2009 in A Bit on the Dark Side, Mental Stability

…if I don’t post today.
If I cannot find the humor in my dysfunction right now, I suspect we would all do better to take a hot bath and a nap and call it a day.
Catch y’all later.

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Feliz Cumpleanos a Mi, or The Greater Good

Posted by Barely Knit Together on Feb 4, 2009 in A Bit on the Dark Side

“We are so fragile, and our cracking bones make noise,
and we are just breakable, breakable, breakable girls and boys.”
-”Breakable” by Ingrid Michaelson
Whenever I think of the Spanish word for birthday – cupleanos – I think of  “accomplish.”  I have accomplished another year.
Not terribly impressive when you think about it.  Unless you know me.
My father came [...]

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