Thankfully, I read an appropriately-timed commentary on blogging in the New York Times by the columnist Maureen Dowd, a much-better-known and decidedly more controversial figure than I will ever be.
In 2008, shortly after I'd had my daughter, 30 non-endometrial, rupturing cysts caused an E.R. resident to schedule an appendectomy (thankfully, after reading my chart more carefully, a senior doctor burst into my room to cancel the procedure and order a sonogram instead).
I didn't go, of course, but he did and he sent me erotic postcards written in French that my mother couldn't read, thankfully".
Thankfully, his mother read the unopened note to herself, and then told him that the school had decided that he was too special to continue his education there.
Thankfully, I'd already read "Solar," but I sorrow for others who have lost the chance to encounter its surprises on their own.
Thankfully, I had just read an article that made me feel badly about myself as a parent, so my ineptness was fresh in mind.
Copies of the guide fetch over two hundred pounds at auction — but, thankfully, it can now be read online.
Thankfully, there's more to read, right here in La Cañada Flintridge.
Thankfully, none of my fellow customers could read my mind as I thought to myself, "There are seven screens.
Thankfully, no one else in the class read the book, either, so the professor didn't hold it against me.
