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Awareness Month

There’s a 10 ml vial of insulin in the back of our refrigerator. The contents expired sometime in 2014, and we might have tossed it when we moved from our last apartment to this one, but instead we packed it up with the ketchup, mustard, pickles, soy sauce, and olives, and moved it two hoursContinue reading “Awareness Month”

Life-Changing Magic

For Christmas I received two slender volumes wrapped neatly together in matching paper. My wife had seen someone reading the first volume on the PATH train; Amazon had offered the second, a parody, when she went online to make the purchase. I felt a thrill of anticipation holding The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up andContinue reading “Life-Changing Magic”