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Welcome to my blog, where I plan to spill my thoughts on pretty much everything. No topic is too big or too small for my head to obsess over, and it helps me to let it all out, so it doesn’t end up creating scar tissue in my brain. (God knows I’ve already lost enough brain cells.) I doubt there will be any rhyme or reason to the topics I discuss, as, again, they all start in my brain, and it’s a mess in there. No organization whatsoever on that right side. Marie Kondo would be mortified.

I hope to add new material regularly, but I’m not yet committing to a timeline because Christmas approaches, and I’m German, so I have a lot of cookies to bake. I welcome all reactions and thoughts you may have, positive or negative.

Thanks for visiting!

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Blowing Jesus’ Mind

The Trump supporters and voters that I find most confusing are those who think of themselves as – and who identify as – Christian. So much of what Trump is, says, and does seems to me to directly contradict what I thought Christians believe. Maybe I don’t know what a Christian believes. Maybe I don’t know what a Christian is.

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Magda Lives in Water and Wind

Mary Magdalene came to me during a pedicure.

I’ve been remembering that moment today as I sit on my sofa, incapacitated by surgery for two severed tendons in my left foot. Trying not to feel sorry for myself for the fact that, a week ago, a butcher knife I had just sharpened got caught on my apron loop and fell, blade down, on top of my foot. I am staring at my bandaged appendage, elevated on three sofa pillows, and I think my toenails could really use some help.

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How Jeff Bezos Dodged a Bullet, or Why Magda Loves the Bozos

Let me begin by saying this: I am an enormous fan of Jeff Bezos, the person I knew when I was 17. I believe that person still exists, though I haven’t gotten together with Jeff often enough over the past 40+ years to know for sure, and God knows, it’s impossible to find the “authentic” version of anyone in news articles or social media.

Quick summary of our relationship: Jeff Bezos and I dated from 1981 to 1984, from my senior year in high school to the summer before my senior year in college.