Margaret's Blog

Stubbornness and grace

October 11, 2021
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“Margaret, I didn’t know you were a runner.” “Oh, I’m not, not really” I said this the day after running my 19th half-marathon, and immediately sensed how ridiculous I sounded. […]

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Of Streets at Night

June 23, 2021
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streetlights

Memory holds on to such funny little details: the hat I lost at a bar on Arlington St. The ride down the grad-school elevator on Friday afternoons to meet friends. […]

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Women in Bright Colors

January 22, 2021
Kamala Harris at her inauguration

Being dismissed never stops being shocking. Despite experience, expertise and passion in a few different areas, there are still plenty of times that colleagues and acquaintances see me – someone […]

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2020: My year in words

December 30, 2020

It would probably be faster to just start a Goodreads account to keep track of all my reads, but I enjoy taking some time at the end of each year […]

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When we know what’s coming

October 19, 2020
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The other night, unexpectedly, a flash of pain in my stomach made me bolt up in bed. An old hand at GI issues, I knew the pain was further “upstream” […]

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