Month: October 2007

What Would Meriwether Do?

I have a question for you. (Yes, you.) Up until now, most of my few visitors have tiptoed through here, leaving in their wake only the faintest stirring of breeze. But now I’m begging you (yes, you): before you move on through the Internet, please offer up a morsel of your wisdom. I’ll go nuts if I don’t start planning an alternate adventure to the Himalaya trip I’ve had to cancel. Starting tomorrow, with my […]

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A Squeaky Heel Gathers No Moss

Despite the subtitle of the Wormlips Blog, I really don’t think it’s all about me. Well, at least not all the time. One way it’s not all about me is that Cheryl has been suffering for the past two weeks from a particularly brutal South Asian disease of uncertain diagnosis. I get to see her when we video-chat on Skype. She looks pretty even when she’s sick, but she does look very sick at the […]

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Testing, Day Two

TEST #3 The situation: Immediately following today’s face-hair-ripping appointment I met up with my acupuncturist, her hubby and Seamus their hound. Cheryl had told me they’re exceptionally fit (the hound possibly less so), which made me a little anxious. I hate holding people up. But part of me thought, “Come on … how fast can they really be?” Man, are these guys in good shape. Man, they’re in really good shape. I mean, man. Our […]

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Testing, Day One

This weekend I’ll make the final decision about the Nepal trip by subjecting myself to a barrage of experiments. TEST # 1 The Hypothesis: My right heel won’t hurt too much during the usual hike up Marin Avenue. The Experiment: Looking toward the SF Bay from my bedroom window, my keen nature-girl eye could see that the light rain would soon dissipate. Waterproofing myself, I set off. I vowed that I wouldn’t cheat this time: […]

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