Yvette Keller

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  • Erotica for A Clothing Addict

    Erotica for A Clothing Addict

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    The J. Peterman Company has been around, publishing its glorious owner’s manuals since 1987 (the year I started High School). Yes, I had to look that up. I never saw one, nor watched Seinfeld, until I went away to college. That was when my mentor, Steven Crain, shared one of the catalogs on a cool,…

  • Black Tea with Lemon and Honey

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    For the first time, I tried drinking my morning black tea with honey and lemon. The honey was a diluted buckwheat honey water (we are almost out of our honey stash and I am using up the last little bit). The lemon was a Meyer lemon, with a peel almost the pale orange of a sunset.…

  • Marvelling at a host of great characters, oh, and that Dr. Strange guy too.

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    This may be harsh, but my favorite character in Dr. Strange was the Cloak of Levitation. It was decisive, powerful, loyal, and silly. Basically, the writers gave the Doctor a wearable guard dog to lighten him up. One of my closest friends is a surgeon, so I’ve seen a dog-surgeon relationship first hand: the dog is the…

  • Generosity and Intimacies

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    I’ve been sick this week which means that I was productive in unusual ways. I slept a lot. Coughed a heck of a lot of phlegm out of my lungs (sorry to go literal on you there). Sat with the husband and completed year-end tax-deductible donations. And I finally managed to finish a book and a TV…

  • Taiwanese Treats: A Liquor I Like

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    My lovely conspira-tea-ist friend Angela went to Taiwan for work and brought me back a boxed set of three fine Oolong Teas. There is Chinese food en route with my loving husband for dinner tonight, and since I’ve been under the weather, I decided to treat myself by opening the box, cracking the tin, and slicing the…

  • Ramen Up For Tampopo, Cowboys!

    Ramen Up For Tampopo, Cowboys!

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    Tampopo is a ten-course meal of visual intensity. Watching it was like being at a feast table with a wide variety of friends and relatives. Some tell funny stories and some tell scary stories. A few are boring and others are disgusting. And ten courses goes on, and on, and on. Too much for me…

  • Put Down the Cat O’ Nine Tails and Step Away…

    Put Down the Cat O’ Nine Tails and Step Away…

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    I’m drafting this in Campbell Hall at UCSB, waiting to hear Steven Johnson talk about his book Wonderland: How Play made The Modern World. I expect it will be interesting and inspiring, and it makes me realize that it is official: I have given up on trying to “win” this year’s NaNoWriMo. After the first week…

  • Why thank you! I’d like some more dog food, please.

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    DAY ONE, STEP ONE: Talk to the scary people. The day after the election, in my grief and rage I implemented the first step of my “stay sane” plan. Anyone I don’t know how they voted is a “scary” person. Get rid of the scary people. Excise them from my life. (I didn’t say it was a…

  • What Cassandra Knew

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    It is the beginning of week two of NaNoWriMo and I cannot think, I can only feel, and I feel horrible. Day eight technically, but it feels like Day one of being reborn in a Cowardly New World. Luckily for me, writing is not the sort of thing that requires clear thought because I don’t…

  • My first published short fiction!

    My first published short fiction!

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    After only seven rejections, my first “finished” short story is published! I’m happy. It is a huge deal because my struggle is that I never FINISH anything. So this is a big win, people! Although I don’t think Roundabout Protection started off as much, I like what it turned into. I’ve heard there’s a market for…