To all my friends who have written to ask about me, I am alive and well and the house came through unscathed. To Pat and Ann, who sent the police over to check on me when my phone wasn’t working for days, thank you for caring so much. As all of you must have read
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Forbidding weather today. Tornado alerts all over television, the power flickering off and on, off and on. At least I managed to cook myself a hot breakfast before it all started. I brought some organic coffee beans with me from Whole Foods and it was sublime. I also brought a loaf of organic French bread
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In a shameless paraphrase of Joseph Conrad: Whenever I find myself dragged down and frowning; whenever it is a damp January in my soul and I have to call on my every strength to prevent myself from deliberately knocking cell phones out of people’s hands or pulling them out of the ears of those who
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