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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 [...]

Tagged as: metablogging, neurosis, strangers I am grateful for, too old for teenage angst, what keeps me awake

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“Mid American” by Ed Paschke in 1969. Strangely resonating…

October 25, 2009 a picture is worth a thousand words

This painting was by Ed Paschke in 1969. 40 years ago. It is on exhibit at the new modern wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. For some unknown reason, I found it sad and strangely resonating when I saw it for the first time. And till this day, I am haunted by it. “The [...]

Tagged as: ability to be oblivious, art, too old for teenage angst

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“I want to be different. Deal with it!”

September 14, 2009 no manual for parenting

This came from my 6 year-old boy last night when I was putting him to bed. “I want you to know that you are very special, and I love you very much.” “Even if you hate me sometimes?” Alarmed. Pause. Deep breath. “Why do you think mommy hates you?” “When you are mad at me [...]

Tagged as: my youngest, the mom dilemma, things kids say, too old for teenage angst

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Do you know who started the famous Bobbed haircut?

August 30, 2009 a picture is worth a thousand words

Louise Brooks, aka Frank Wedekind’s “Lulu”, 1929. Nobody, I mean, nobody, does it better… I have had the same postcard on my bookshelf since college.  I included it as one of the images for a self-portrait collage that I put together…  Now come to think of it, I started having identity crisis since that age [...]

Tagged as: i am a fan, movies, photo, too old for teenage angst

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Nothing cures narcissistic self-pity better than a rabid case of road rage OR how I found reality

June 13, 2009 therapy in session

After Starbucks, which seemed to be closing since even the cops outside were leaving, I continued to wander in the night. Blasting Sarah Betten’s Scream, I mindless drove first on 53 N, which turned out to be a stupid move since it goes nowhere and ended even before the end of the album. I turned [...]

Tagged as: things i want to say out loud, too old for teenage angst

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My mommy cooks. My mommy cleans. My mommy loves me.

June 8, 2009 no manual for parenting

    It is almost a month since Mother’s Day and therefore I figure it is safe to ruminate out loud what I thought when I saw these loving and lovable pictures drawn by my 6 year old, with lots of love, without the risk of being accused as mean-spirited, bitter, spoiled, jaded, or worse, [...]

Tagged as: bad mommy alert, guilt is the trip mothers take often, i hate mother's day, my youngest, photo, the mom dilemma, too old for teenage angst

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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 [...]

Tagged as: i hate mother's day, neurosis, the mom dilemma, too old for teenage angst

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In praise of the book, “American Born Chinese”

January 5, 2009 random

For Chinese people or people in the know, American Born Chinese are known as ABC, and different from Chinese immigrants (be their parents or their distant cousins), they have to cope with a different set of tribulations, and many of these are psychological. This book, or rather, graphic novel, follows the tradition of Frank Chin's angry [...]

Tagged as: Asian Americans, be yourself, book, Chinese Americans, too old for teenage angst

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