Tag: relationships
Posted on June 6, 2014
by Jan Wilberg
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There are secret schools where people go to learn how to lie. There they learn how to be ambitious in their lying and convincingly upset when challenged. They study tapes of Ryan Braun and Lance Armstrong issuing denials about their doping, watch them both… Continue Reading “Learned Liars”
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Posted on May 12, 2014
by Jan Wilberg
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A beautifully-dressed man will have just a few things. He’ll have a good watch. Maybe if he is like my husband, he’ll have two watches. One will be the gold watch that belonged to his grandfather who died fifty years ago. He must know… Continue Reading “The Loveliness of a Man’s Things”
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Posted on May 6, 2014
by Jan Wilberg
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I once dated a guy with false teeth, well, dentures, I should say. Saying false teeth makes him sound like George Washington. He wasn’t old, well, a bit older than me and I was in my early thirties. I’d suspected that his teeth weren’t… Continue Reading “Real Deal”
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Posted on May 2, 2014
by Jan Wilberg
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On my way home from San Diego last night, I stared out the window of the plane for two hours. The cabin was dark with only a few tiny lights on, many empty seats. And silent, no whispering conversations or headphone spillover, no babies… Continue Reading “The Airplane Window”
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Posted on April 29, 2014
by Jan Wilberg
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When your father dies, you will be at a loss for words. If it’s a surprise, you will burst into tears. You will cover your face with your hands and cry like you were six-years old, like the time you got lost on the… Continue Reading “When Your Father Dies”
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Posted on April 26, 2014
by Jan Wilberg
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Frye boots, jeans, white shirt, black leather jacket. Attitude. I daresay for most women of my generation I have to say no more. Can you go thirty years on this? Yes, with plenty left over. _____________________ Written in response to a prompt from The… Continue Reading “My Bad Boy”
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Posted on April 22, 2014
by Jan Wilberg
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You cannot calmly discuss your differences with someone who has a shiv in his shoe. You either have to get yourself a shiv or you have to walk away. The pitiful thing about people who’ve read the self-help manuals about how to manage conflict and fight fair is… Continue Reading “Fighting Fair in a Sucker Punch World”
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Posted on April 20, 2014
by Jan Wilberg
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She asked me if I’d take her to the funeral. She said in a text: “Will u take me? I can’t get a ride.” So I said, yes, I would drive her. This would be another one of the things that I probably wouldn’t… Continue Reading “Role Model”
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Posted on April 19, 2014
by Jan Wilberg
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Without thinking even 60 seconds, I hit the Buy Now button and sent my 89-year old father his first computer, a brilliant blue IMac. The same day I wrote him a letter, gave him my email address, and told him to email me when… Continue Reading “TIE and SIT”
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Posted on April 15, 2014
by Jan Wilberg
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Every couple of years after he was the cause of the break-up of my first marriage, Hal would show up at my front door with a bottle of Scotch which I didn’t drink and then try to ingratiate himself into my life as my… Continue Reading “Not Now, but Then”
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