New Vocabulary Words

1. Esotropia Monocular
2. Amblyopia

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We have tickets to the circus.

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My firstborn now has a driver's license. Crazy.

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In the new P&W mag there's a round-up of poets with first books. One of them sent out her book 400 times in 4 years. Four HUNDRED times. Kids, I don't know if I have it in me...

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Aries -- week of October 18

In his book The Primary Colors, Alexander Theroux writes that yellow is the color of "early bruises, forbidding skies, dead leaves, dental plaque, foul curtains, speed bumps, and callused feet." And yet, he muses, yellow is also the color of "the generous sun, butter, candlelight, ripening grain, translucent amber, and spring itself." I suspect that in the coming week, Aries, you will have encounters with a situation that is as paradoxical as yellow. Whether your experience is more like wrapping yourself in foul curtains or basking in the generous sun may depend largely on whether you summon a determination to see the best in everything.