Author: Pamie
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Cal-ifornia Love
I think Cal has decided his time with us is over. About three weeks ago, I came home late and watched The Sopranos on the couch with stee. Afterwards, as I was falling asleep, stee asked, “Where’s Cal?” It wasn’t like him not to be on stee’s legs, or in front of the television, or…
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Chris Rock Makes Dads Better
This coffee shop has large, black structural poles throughout. There’s one just behind me, from floor to ceiling, between my booth and the counter. A man just walked past me, holding the hand of his tiny daughter, who was probably just under two years old. “Stay off the pole, honey,” he said to her, pulling…
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off the top of my head.
I’m home alone on a Friday night. I got out of work at an hour usually reserved for beginning a second draft of a script, and it’s the start of a weekend, so I don’t really know what to do with myself. I talked to AB for a little while, but company arrived while we…
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Remember Me?
I had an idea for an entry last weekend, but never got around to writing it. I tried three times this week to sit and write something. But it’s been pretty busy. So instead I uploaded some pictures to Flickr. Does that count?
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name dropping at cingular…
I was on hour “Forget It” with my Cingular phone, and gave one last call to try and figure out if there was anything I could to to resolve the fact that my Treo doesn’t send or receive email. The support rep on the phone couldn’t hear me, and asked if he could call me…
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New Book Alert
I have a short story in this new collection. “What Happens Next” is the story of a woman who enters her local video store one night determined to leave with more than just the newest release. All proceeds from Girls’ Night Out benefit War Child and No Strings.
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staying cool below the mason-dixon line.
A memory flashed into my head this morning as I grabbed a bottle of seltzer for the road. [We now have bottles of seltzer in our refrigerator because stee went through a non-alcoholic phase a couple of months ago, and what has lingered is his love for bizarre bottles of juices and flavored waters. Consequently,…