Ten kinds of people to avoid are: 10. Those who mark each holiday like they’re ticking them off cheerily and dabbing their pen on their tongues. Check! Yay! That was fun. When you’re out and about and you run into them they sound like this: “Christmas? Oh, Christmas was FANTASTIC! The whole family came in [...]
I am taking Thumper’s advice: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nuthin’ at all.” So I’m shutting up now.
I’m using the title “Particles” even though it could have been titled simply “Parts”. It’s only bothering me to let that stand because once, at a time when I was very impressionable, a professor said that said people who use “usage” instead of “use” are pretentious and putting on airs to sound smarter than they [...]
Survived: a day that started out with a longer than necessary phone call wondering where a laptop went that I was keeping in my office finding the laptop nearly an hour later reading a handwritten note from a student about some terrible things done to her calling DCFS stocking up on shoveling Pringles and Zingers [...]
Well, look at that. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve updated the questions and written a second part to this series. It seems that many of you are either “fascinated” or “intrigued”. Oh, those aren’t my words, I have just read about what people are saying elsewhere. There will have to be a third [...]
Ira Glass had a lot of wonderful things to say at the concert. But concert seems like the wrong word. It was a radio “show” based on some of his favorite stories. He started out on a dark stage and the first words he uttered were, “Now, the first thing you have to understand is [...]
Mallory and I are attending tonight’s showing of Ira Glass and we’re beside ourselves. This is her Christmas present and the most unselfish thing I decided to do when I purchased the tickets a few weeks ago was invite myself along so that we could cherish Ira in all his chunky-glasses glory together. If you [...]
My mother saves everything. For instance, when I moved to my own place and had nothing but my clothes and nothing for a kitchen she gave me an antique clay bowl that I have pined for since I was little. When I was in college she asked us girls to tell her what we’d want [...]
In the spirit of the holiday season and in the interest of making sure your holiday party is trendy, I’m alerting everyone that after work today, I will be buying a few cocktail dresses. I’m not being insensitive because of the current economic climate; I’m doing my part to keep the latest trend alive! I [...]
There is an adorable book out by Katrina Kenison titled “Mitten Strings For God” that is of particular interest to me lately. It’s wonderfully simplistic in it’s approach to making time for self and for family and cutting out all the hectic activities that make me forget as a mother that my primary job, my [...]
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