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Freedom from Want, Or The Case of the Golden Turkey

November 22, 2009 a picture is worth a thousand words

Even if you don’t know its name, you must have seen this iconic painting by Norman Rockwell: The name of the painting is Freedom from Want, by Norman Rockwell in 1943. Ever since its appearance and subsequent permeation into the pop culture and the collective American consciousness, it is also known as Thanksgiving Dinner. This [...]

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If you keep a “life” blog and therefore experience existential crisis on a regular basis…

November 7, 2009 random

You have got to read this: Blogging for Dummies by Aunt Becky (she’s actually young and hot) over at Mommy Wants Vodka.  As someone who has experimented with making my own bacon-flavored vodka, she had me at the name of her blog… When I stumbled upon her genuine, honest, tell-it-like-it-is advice about blogging and perhaps [...]

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Day 5 of NaBloPoMo: When in doubt, talk about phobias…

November 5, 2009 therapy in session

I suck. It is only the fifth day of National Blog Posting Month and I am already wanting to quit. Life and work seem to have a way of getting into the way of daily blogging… I am totally kidding up there.  Blogging should be a supplement to life: a conduit to reflect on life [...]

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How do you know what you are having is NOT swine flu? Waiting for the other shoe to drop…

October 14, 2009 random

For days I thought I may have had IT. Not because I had any telltale symptoms because, well, so far, after I scoured the Interweb, I can’t find any statement on Telltale Signs for Swine Flu. I watched the CDC video with an obsession, “Symptoms of H1N1″ at 2 am in the morning one night [...]

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Got Summer? Or, On the Agonizing Ritual of Closet Reorg

October 3, 2009 random

Apparently not this year. Despite its severe winters and famous 3-foot snow, Chicago has always delivered hot and humid summers.  These two things are not mutually exclusive, I am sure, according to a meteorologist, but in my mind I always wonder, while either dying from motion sickness from all the shivering or from dehydration when [...]

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I went to get Starbucks and I got an Existential Crisis instead…

September 16, 2009 random

One thing about working is that, when you are assigned a project whose essence you detest, you become very easily distracted.  After finding it extremely difficult to focus on the tasks at hand, while the clock tick tick tick away, and truth be told, a trip to the restroom to reapply my makeup, I made [...]

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My Mother’s Day Phobia

May 13, 2009 no manual for parenting

It is the Wednesday after Mother’s Day and therefore I figure it is safe to reflect upon the impact of Mother’s Day on me personally, without the risk of being accused as mean-spirited, bitter, spoiled, jaded, or worse, unfit-to-be-a-mother…     Although I have always been moved by the origin of Mother’s Day, an internationally [...]

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On the Empty Seat: musings about how we all sit together, or not, on the train

April 23, 2009 through the looking glass

Like on any public transportation, an empty space on the seat next to where you are sitting is highly coveted – this has been proven with money (after all it talks) when airlines started offering “an empty seat next to you as long as it is not a full flight” as one of the benefits [...]

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Rising to the Challenge: trying to explain why I don’t watch Lost

March 13, 2009 imho is just a polite way to say I know you don't give a hoot what I think but I'm going to say it anyway

Dear Mr. Gleeson, I know this sounds like a cop out to you, but here is a short, incompletely researched response to your question to which I have not responded to. But I have other duties to tend to, such as packing for our long trip to Asia which commences tomorrow, (Here is a picture [...]

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Towards the discussion of race with a 6 year-old…

February 11, 2009 no manual for parenting

Every day is a trial and error in my effort to bring my kids up the “right” way… Here is an incident happened last month which I have been chewing over and over: My 6 year-old came home excited one day to tell me all about what he had learned at school about MLK, about [...]

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