Hippies, punks, and goths

Too often I find myself wondering what grown-up clique I belong to. I mean, I’m an adult: I’m married, I have a nice house (well, I rent a nice house), with nice possessions, I have a real job that I love, one bachelor’s degree and the beginnings of a master’s degree, I’m Mommy to two [...]

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Birthday Wisdom

On Tuesday I turned 26, which is about as exciting as clipping your nails, except without the satisfaction of evenly filed nails afterward. I think the reason this birthday was upsetting was because it was such a nothing birthday. It was the first birthday I can recall that didn’t feel like a birthday; it was [...]

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Chicken shit and Alzheimer’s

I’ve spent the last several days visiting relatives, most notably my grandparents on my mom’s side, whom I haven’t seen in nearly two years.
I knew that my grandmother had started exhibiting some symptoms of Alzheimer’s, and I knew that neither of my grandparents were doing particularly well. I was prepared for that. I was not [...]

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The Test I Can Never Pass

Yesterday I went in for the first of my two appointments with audiologists. Naturally, before she could recommend a type of hearing aid, she had to give me a hearing test.
I hate hearing tests.
I hate them to the very core of my soul. When I was younger I got to be the star of one [...]

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Dear Sirs

I work as an editor for a medical publisher. Although I am an editor, and although my company does have a dedicated customer support department, the editors in my particular department are required to handle much of our own customer support inquiries. Our manager requires this because she feels that if we are receiving suggestions, [...]

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Hearing aid woes

I have two appointments this week with two different audiologists (in two different states!) to discuss my options for a new hearing aid. They will undoubtedly try to convince me that I should get one for my right ear, too, and I’ll have to firmly explain that I don’t wear the one I have for [...]

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Who is Josephine Henneberry?

I have chosen the pseudonym Josephine Henneberry for several reasons. I chose to blog under a pseudonym rather than my own name (of which I’m really quite fond) because someday I might want to apply for a different job (and in the meantime, I’d like to keep the one I have), and there might be [...]

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