Yesterday I woke up determined to make the most of the next few hours. If my levodopa was timed correctly, I could walk three or four miles while it was still nice and cool outside — which was important because lately I’ve been easily drenched in sweat. Brisk air won’t stop the overheating, but it […]
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It seems like just yesterday (or nearly a month ago) that I complained about having too many appointments, and now we’re stuck in another of those holding patterns. Things kicked off on Monday with an early morning visit from a woman who restores old windows. A couple years ago she repaired a broken stained glass
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I’m too excited to try to wax poetic about today’s U.S. Open women’s final, so don’t expect much here. Like all Coco Gauff enthusiasts, I felt queasy when Aryna Sabalenka came out guns blazing in the first set. During the second set, when Gauff broke serve, I messaged my best friend, who’d been a nervous
It is a uniquely gay problem to routinely awaken to thoughts of Liza Minnelli, but here I stand before you, dark circles under my eyes, affirming that I’ve been afflicted by this condition for years now, since first listening to Results. Several times a year, sometimes for weeks at a time, I wake up with
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As we settle in for a much-hyped all-American men’s quarterfinal at a sweltering U.S. Open (where I’m hoping for a Ben Shelton victory over Frances Tiafoe), here’s a smattering of unimportant thoughts on recent WTA happenings, from Venus to Coco and a rankings shake-up.
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Though the Twirl review remains overdue at Cranky Lesbian, I wanted to check in and say that I’m fine. My shoulder has been in bad shape, which is frustrating. But I’m almost done with a spate of home improvement project meetings that have sopped up whatever free time I’ve had lately that wasn’t spent rubbing
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New content was supposed to be posted here and at the Cranky mothership this (past) weekend, until something went awry in real-life and required all of my attention. That mini-emergency even preempted my viewing of Sunday’s Poland Open final, in which Iga Świątek defeated Germany’s Laura Siegemund 6-0, 6-1 in front of a jubilant Warsaw
There was a time in our relationship that everyone but Crankenstein seemed to be pregnant and it left her despondent. From inexperienced relatives in their early twenties to well-established married couples in their forties and seemingly everyone in between, our friends, family and colleagues were participating in a baby boom we knew would pass us
When Crankenstein was still in training, we used to fantasize about how our lives might change once she was an attending physician. We wouldn’t be tied to any one place geographically, as you are during medical school, residency and fellowship, and her compensation would increase dramatically, allowing us to finally make progress on her staggering
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Update: As of 7/20/23, the issue is resolved (knock wood) for now. No one at Bluehost has an explanation for ongoing cache issues with the Cranky Lesbian homepage, so until it is fixed I’ll post new content links here for anyone who isn’t an email subscriber. The lag time was a few hours last week,
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