Author Archives: Pat Greene

It’s too darn hot.

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Pat Greene

Today was the ninth day of a heat wave in Northern California, with temperatures well into the nineties everyday and the last three in triple digits at my house (and in the nineties well into the evening inside the house, … Continue reading →

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Blog review

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Pat Greene

For the most part, this is not a political blog. Not because I’m not interested, but because there are a lot of people who write those sort of blogs already, and I’m not sure what I would have to add … Continue reading →

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To the ends of the earth…

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Pat Greene

At the gift shop in Resolute Bay, Nunavit, you can buy a shirt that says “Resolute Bay is not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.” Not many people live in Resolute — 215, as … Continue reading →

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They shoot horses, don’t they?

Posted on July 15, 2006 by Pat Greene

I have been waiting for several days to write an obituary for Barbaro. He was diagnosed with laminitis last Tuesday. Laminitis is painful, incurable, and almost always ends in the horse being put down. The list of horses euthanized due … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 13, 2006 by Pat Greene

Remember those questions I asked God a couple of weeks back? My friend Julie, the New York seminarian, answers some of them.

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S-C-H-I….

Posted on July 11, 2006 by Pat Greene

At one point in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Jesus appears to one of the contestants, a hyperachieving young woman named Marcy Park. “Jesus, will you be disappointed in me if I lose?” “No, my child, I won’t … Continue reading →

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It was a dark and stormy night….

Posted on July 2, 2006 by Pat Greene

In November 2003, during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I wrote a novel. A bad novel. A very, very bad novel. A key part of the plot was that the protagonist (a woman based on me, except she looked nothing … Continue reading →

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Andrea Yates and me.

Posted on June 27, 2006 by Pat Greene

The retrial of Andrea Yates for the murder of her children began this week. When I see pictures of her in the courtroom, the thought flashes across my mind, unbidden, that could have been me. Postpartum depression is a condition … Continue reading →

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PSA

Posted on June 25, 2006 by Pat Greene

My very favorite political and public affairs blog, Respectful of Otters, is back online after a nine-months absence. Rivka is scrupulously fair, willing to call out idiocy in any direction when she sees it, and she does her homework. She … Continue reading →

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A letter to the Almighty.

Posted on June 24, 2006 by Pat Greene

Dear God, I’m really furious. I’ve been working on this acceptance business. Really, I have been. I have let go of needing to know why N. died even though she just turned forty. Of why C. has to raise two … Continue reading →

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Requiem.

Posted on June 23, 2006 by Pat Greene

N. died today. We were expecting it, of course. Still, getting a phone call telling you someone you love has died hurts, no matter how much it was expected. Even the San Diego Wild Animal Park — an otherwise wonderful … Continue reading →

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For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Pat Greene

I am two thousand miles from my home, in the dining room of my mother-in-law. I have come here to see my husband’s sister-in-law, who is in the last stages of brain cancer. I have never been around dying people … Continue reading →

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Why I am not a lactivist.

Posted on June 1, 2006 by Pat Greene

I was going to do everything “properly” with my first baby. Natural birth, no epidural, no C-section. And I was going to nurse my baby from the start; formula was evil. It’s amazing how dogmatic you can get when you … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 1, 2006 by Pat Greene

Sigh. You would think that people would have better things to do with their time. I am referring to the flap over at Live Journal about the use of breastfeeding pictures as default icons. I was thinking it was an … Continue reading →

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Who are we?

Posted on May 30, 2006 by Pat Greene

Thinking back about the last post, about how a society/culture/tribe identifies with its art, I began to consider what this meant for America. Most of our cultural landmarks have not been in the visual arts, for one thing. When I … Continue reading →

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