Bornfamous

A long time ago, I started this blog with a promise to myself that I would write something every day. This would be my morning pages, written by hand in my paper journal first (according to Julia Cameron’s rules), and then transcribed here on BornFamous. It worked, more or less, until three years ago.
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I finally got a bed–a real bed!–yesterday, after sleeping [how many years, three? four? five?] on first a couch, then a chair, a cot and finally graduating to the luxury of an old mattress on the floor. Bought the bed from my friend Nicole, the lovely lady I met last spring when I briefly rented [...]

When someone works for less pay than she can live on–when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently–then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. The “working poor,” as they [...]

Thought you might like a little history lesson, courtesy of the BBC:
It does not detract from the relief operation in Asia to question the title almost routinely given to it as the “world’s largest relief operation ever”.
The huge American undertakings that fed millions of people during and after the World War I rescued not sections [...]

Thanks, Mary Beth, for letting me know comments weren’t working. Turned out to be a simple permissions error.

A recent study found that wedded bliss keeps you healthy. . . . Now, I have to admit that marriage does have some stresses. There are usually some disagreements over money or how you�re going to discipline the children or if you�re even going to have children at all. But it�s really minor stuff, relatively [...]

Scarlett almost attracts all eye in black shirt and jeans with her breast half covered.”
–Caption for this photo of a resplendent, but perfectly decent Scarlett Johannson.
p.s. Comments aren’t working for some reason. Sorry. Working on it.

You can�t change [him] � but you can change your phone number.”
–Advice Goddess

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
–H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Sun columnist, [...]

“It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.” –J. D. Salinger, 1919-