mikkie on January 26th, 2009

I’ve always had issues with my weight, even when in hindsight I wasn’t too terribly heavy. Looking at my childhood school photos, I appeared to be normal weight until about fifth grade, when the chubbiness started to set in for awhile. Even in junior high, I didn’t look bad – nothing we’d look twice at [...]

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mikkie on January 20th, 2009

Today was a big day for Barack Obama, and for the country. Change has indeed come, as promised — but what sort of change materializes in this new administration remains to be seen.
I really liked Obama at first, but that slowly turned to skepticism as the way-too-long campaign ground on. I liked his charisma, energy [...]

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mikkie on January 15th, 2009

I’d like to introduce you to Lisa, a spunky woman with a husband and two little girls who I got to know through her blog, originally called the “Rock Bitch” and now “Clusterfook“. She’s a die-hard Rolling Stones fan, and back then I think she was a radio DJ. She had the sassy, funny, take-no-prisoners [...]

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mikkie on January 10th, 2009

I’m not a believer in all this “global warming” mania. People focus on the last hundred years or so and act like Chicken Little, crying that the sky is falling. What they’re failing to understand is that there have been periods of alternate warming and cooling throughout the earth’s history, LONG before humans were making [...]

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mikkie on January 7th, 2009

Last week, I had been thinking of a favorite penpal that I had lost touch with over a year ago. Imagine my surprise when yesterday I got an e-mail from him! It was confusing, though, because he was inviting me to join some dating site, and the last I had heard, he was married and [...]

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mikkie on January 5th, 2009

Sometimes I reflect on my day-to-day emotional state. I’m usually very steady in my emotional level — I don’t get giddily happy very often, nor do I routinely feel sad or depressed. Mostly, I’m just “there” — blah, bland, somewhere in the middle. I think psychologists would call it a “flat affect”. According to this [...]

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mikkie on January 4th, 2009

This is my new personal blog, where I intend to write whatever I wish, about whatever I please. Stay tuned…

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