Jessica Barksdale Inclan's Blog

• Too Hot

  September 5, 2008

  • It's too hot to be smart these days, so I"m getting by on muscle memory and hope.  We aren't sleeping well, the fan on, the blankets off, the whine of the freeway in the distance.  The tomat

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• A Visit from Poppy

  September 4, 2008

  • Sometimes nice things happen when you don't expect them but want them, and that's the best.  I have been feeling a little bereft lately of creatures.  Sure, I've made do with my bird feeder and t

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• The Case of the Mildewed Washing Machine (and other technological mysteries)

  September 3, 2008

  • For a while, Michael and I thought we were imagining it.  Separately, we thought that we had somehow both begun to smell funky, kind of oldish and stale, like a room long closed in a humid climate

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