http://www.recipesfortrouble.com/2008/04/the-road-in-the-rearview-mirror/ A world of food stories, culinary memories, and ingredients queerly political. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:49:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://www.recipesfortrouble.com/2008/04/the-road-in-the-rearview-mirror/#comment-844 Lori W. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:28:23 +0000 http://www.recipesfortrouble.com/2008/04/the-road-in-the-rearview-mirror/#comment-844 Before writing there were dishes to be done, clothes to be washed, groceries bought. Before writing there were letters to be delivered, friends to support and play with, materials found, research done, money procured, rent paid, body to be washed, lotioned, deodorized, teethbrushed, toenails cut, homework planned, honework done, relatives phoned, trashy horoscopes read, child and partner fed, dreams dreamt, vitamins ingested, chocolate devoured...and then there was the word. And the word was written by the woman and it was good, but she was damned tired, I tell ya! Before writing there were dishes to be done, clothes to be washed, groceries bought. Before writing there were letters to be delivered, friends to support and play with, materials found, research done, money procured, rent paid, body to be washed, lotioned, deodorized, teethbrushed, toenails cut, homework planned, honework done, relatives phoned, trashy horoscopes read, child and partner fed, dreams dreamt, vitamins ingested, chocolate devoured…and then there was the word. And the word was written by the woman and it was good, but she was damned tired, I tell ya!

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