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As of today, this blog will be located at:http://piscesinpurple.com.Please email me at piscesinpurple @ gmail . com if you experience any technical difficulties with the new site.

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Stop me if any of this sounds familiar.As long as I can remember, my dad has gone through what I like to call phases. Like the time he went all Catholic and bought a little wooden saint with peeling paint and no hands. Then one day he up and decided that was idolatry and threw it down the incinerator chute in his building on Pelham Parkway. The “phase” he happened to be going through

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My life is so weird.This is a walking stick, in my kitchen.This is one of my neighbors, and his iguana.This is the ice cream truck, stopping right next door.This is a bat, not unlike the ones that chirpnightly past my verandah.(Did you know that verandah is a Hindi word?)These are some kids my uncle inducted into his moth-hunting army.And this? This is breathtaking. Wow.This isn't bad either.My

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Nothing of note to report on Carnival this year. I kept my misbehavior at home.But check out my jab jab helmet!Doesn't it kind of look like I'm in a foxhole calling for reinforcements?***You can listen to this year's soca here. I have to agree with YY that this season's selection is not quite so fabulous as it has been in years past. Soca, however, is not unlike sex pizza, in that even the

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(I took this photo. I cropped out the people. What remains is the standard Sunday meal at my house in Grenada, eaten on the verandah overlooking Westerhall Bay... accompanied by chilled red wine.) Put your prejudices aside and really think about it, and you'll have to agree. There are certain circumstances when it's totally appropriate to drink chilled red wine, and being in Grenada is one of

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(Three random Grenadian kids playing cricket in the road. My brother took this picture when he was here for Carnival in 2004.) I have been a very bad blogger lately. I did prettify the thing a bit, but that hardly excuses. (Though I do hope you like the new header.)My housekeeper/babysitter/maid/cook fractured her foot and hasn't been able to work. She takes care of my grandmother too, so

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Last week the McCain campaign declared war on free speech and sweet little gray-haired ladies.  Here's Rachel Maddow telling it like it is:  

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The preliminary results of the Grenadian general election are in. Bye bye, Keith. It was fun while it lasted. And thanks for the memories... especially this one:

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My brother and his ladylove are currently living in Santiago, Chile, teaching English and perfecting their Spanish. I'd be jealous if I were not living in my own personal paradise.My sister-in-law, the aforementioned ladylove, is blogging about her experiences there. Check out her musings on her favorite things about Santiago, tampons, and mayonnaise.

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(This is not just any pomegranate.This is the first fruit of the tree my momplanted nearly two years ago.It was even yummier than it looks.) I decided the other day that instead of adding a disturbing number of "Posted Items" to my facebook profile, I will do this:From an excellent friend and fellow mommy, I got an email with a link to this article about a boy who drowned hours after swimming,

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The last general election in Grenada was five years ago, nearly two years before my time. So I'm getting a real kick out of election season, especially since everyone is to some degree taking a page from or making a comparison to the campaigns going on right now in the States. My informal survey tells me that most Grenadians make their political decisions based on very narrow and personal

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YY's comment on my last post reminded me of this article in Vanity Fair.Get through the part about Eliot Spitzer and there is some fascinating commentary re: how sex informs U.S. politics. The best part, the part about Michelle Obama, appears towards the end. I won't spoil it for you.Because it's Friday, here's some random Obama-related fun.

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We weren't going to get political here, really we weren't. But I just cannot let this pass without comment, not when it comes to my girl Michelle.The following is so racist I need to go spit. (Others chime in here. Maureen Dowd, bless her, even gets the terminology correct.)UPDATE:The bimbo in the video above lost her show. Unfortunately they're replacing her with one of my least favorite

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So I've been back in Grenada almost a month now. I'm getting re-acclimated. I arrived at the peak of dry season, which may very well have been even dumber than moving back to the Northeastern U.S. in November, I don't know. This week we finally saw some rain, which broke the oppressive heat. I'm tan again, used to the buses and even the non-existent water pressure. I'm still not walking or

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Remember Chief Iron Eyes Cody? My friend YY, Grenadian blogger extraordinaire, posted this regarding the development threatening to spoil Grand Anse Beach. Will we ever learn? My hope is that this project will stall indefinitely, meeting the same fate as some other ill-advised plans for the "development" of Grenada, eventually falling by the wayside as money runs out and frustration runs in.

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On April 7, 2005, mere days before I first set foot on Grenadian soil, I emailed my mom to ask what kind of clothes I should bring and what she needed me to bring for her. She replied:M, bring for yourself capri pants or med/long skirts, tops with short sleeves/sleeveless, sneakers, jeans, a hat or two, 1 pair socks, umbrella, sunscreen, a kerchief, sandals and flip-flops, one office-type

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I've lost count by now. How many times have I gone back and forth?It starts the night before when I change my wallet and charge the other cell phone. The one is shiny silver, full of American-style plastic and receipts from places like Target and Starbucks, matchbooks from Manhattan restaurants that were too trendy in 2003, perfect now. The other one is a little hand batik purse that zips,

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Top ten totally awesome things about Grenada:1. The prime minister. Never have I witnessed a public official so spectacularly lacking in compunction. Never have I seen such posturing, such casual falsehoods about matters of state. It is fabulously entertaining to watch.2. The newspaper! The letters to the editor are not to be believed. Airing of personal grievances regarding a moved cow or

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jitterbug perfume still life with woodpecker kissing in manhattan a people's history of the united states anatomy of the spirit girlfriend in a coma the time traveler's wife the once and future king letters from the earth the memory keeper's daughter brave new world fahrenheit 451ender's game, etc. harry potter -- all of them, but especially 3, 5 & 7 truth & beauty the patron saint of liars the

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