NOT KEEPING SCORE

When I have writer’s block, I check my junk mail.
Or the spam on Not Keeping Score. On any given day, I get about 50 spam comments on my blog (russian mail-order wives, vicodin, porn, help-china-take-over-the-world) and for the most part, I “Mark All As Spam” and delete (yes, I know: there is a plug-in for […]

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Having dinner at Ha’s house again. Watching the TV, images flickering, shots from Iraq.
I had temporarily forgotten about the war. Being in Israel and thoughts of the Middle East seem so far away. California even farther, with boiled pork intestines and banana flower salad on the table.
Listening to President Bush speak on the newest withdrawl […]

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Freelancing abroad in the Holy Land for 18 days
WHAT? I can’t hear you over the wailing Hindi music!
Yes, I know. Anyone who has visited NKS in the past week, (perhaps surreptitiously while at work with the volume up) — I apologize. But look: I finally figured out how to turn off the auto-play on my […]

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I’m doing some work for a couple of Web 2.0 companies, and finding myself, well — 2.0verwhelmed.
I like to think of myself as a fairly savvy technology user, but I have to admit that more and more I have to “educate myself” to keep up.
It all started when I ripped off all of my […]

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Heading into my last week before I fly to Vietnam, the nerves were rising: so many things to do before take off! Complete poems for an upcoming poetry reading, finish working on Grandpa’s memoir, get travel visas, get new health insurance, buy gifts for Vietnamese host, pay off credit card (to make room for new […]

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Back from Turkey sun-sitting hotly                   drinking          tea along Petaluma river old                            ladies in straw hats and gray-haired men who’ve found second youth                  in bike riding         drinking coffee          (muscles are controlled passion)                           their mean lime spandex leotards bragging about the last sprint across Spring Hill. I: 26       “retired”      smile to spend […]

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Have moved on to Faralye, an incredibly quaint village about 40 minute drive into the pine-covered mountain where Yuva, our yoga retreat, takes place. It is truly a treasure of a place: remote, quiet save for the rooster and cicadas (no internet whatsoever… barely hot water), 180 degrees from Olündeniz, with the most amazing views […]

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A great video about Web 2.0, with some interesting responses on YouTube — all perfect examples of the conversations enabled by the form.
[For some reason I’m having a difficult time embedding, so I’m just gonna provide the link.]

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A MULTI-PART EXPLORATION ON WHETHER PEOPLE CHANGE, THROUGH THE COMPLETELY UN-SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF PERSONAL ITEMS FOUND IN SHANNON DEJONG’S “SPECIAL BOX” AND ASSORTED CHILDHOOD MEMORABILIA*[1] — AND OTHER STUFF, TOO
Part IV
I went to a baby shower for a friend the other day, which was lovely, truly lovely. But let me tell you — it could […]

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I’m taking a conversational French class with my mother at the local junior college *[1]
We met last night for the first class, and as part of the “immersion” approach, we were all asked to “use our imaginations” as we were going to have to “pick someone to be.”
The teacher wrote on the board in front […]

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