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Category Archives: Family
Today’s Coffee Was for the Birds
You know the saying that spilling your coffee is like the adult version of losing your balloon, or dropping your ice-cream cone? I think that is especially true if a) it’s your first of the day, b) it’s purchased from … Continue reading
Posted in Cats, Coffee, Driving & Other Transportation, Family, Food, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged birds, coffee, McDonald's, mornings, Mr. Peanutbutter, Nevada Avenue, patience
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October 26th
October 26, 1991 was a different kind of day than I was used to. Cheerleading had become my entire life since 1987, and cheering at a game was nothing unusual. But on 10/26/91, cheerleading was different. For one thing, we … Continue reading
Posted in Family, School, Sports, Uncategorized
Tagged cheerleading, grandparents, South Shore Christian School
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Juicing, Day 8: Hot Girls in Hot Tubs
Tuesday, August 15th: Day 8 9:15 am Only 15 minutes from the start time in my app, I had my first shot of the day! Natural electrolyte. I feel groggy and down and think it’s partially from taking generic-brand Nyquil … Continue reading
Posted in Body Image, Family, Friends, Juicing, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged Jason Vale, Juicing
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Back to NY, Day One — Nanny & Pop-Pop’s House
My third trip back to New York was for my best friend’s wedding. Shannon and I met in sixth grade, became friends in seventh grade, and BFFs in eighth. So it’s been nearly 30 years. We went through junior and … Continue reading
Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Books, Childhood, Dreams, Family, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged grandparents, New York
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On Days Like This
On days like this, time seems to fall away. The sun is at this one place in the sky, and everything looks golden, as if it were an episode of “Wonder Years.” It’s almost Fall and I see my hair … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Family, Friends, Miscellaneous, The '80s, Women
Tagged autumn, death, Fall, gathering rosebuds, getting older, golden skies, hope, midlife crises, school supplies, September, spiral notebooks, Spring, turning 40
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Trowsers Rolled
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels … Continue reading
Posted in AcTING!, Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Family, Friends, Miscellaneous, The '80s, Women, Work
Tagged 1999, Being a kid, Brights, Charlie Sheen, Degrassi, Desperate Housewives, Do not resent growing old, friends, Glintz, gray hair, Hamlet, heavy thoughts, Hello Kitty, Internet, Jenny Lewis, Kerri Green, Lucas movie, New Year's, Rilo Kiley, Smuggler's Notch, T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, turning 40
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From Page to Stage
I spent my formative years in a one-bedroom apartment in Hempstead, circa the ’70s. Television was rarely an option; my TV youth experience was relegated to the PBS kids lineup (“Sesame Street,” “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” and “The Electric Company.”) Here … Continue reading
Posted in AcTING!, Books, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Family, Lists, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged Amy March, Ann M. Martin, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, Beverly Cleary, books, BSC, Dolly Pops, Doubleday, Hempstead, Jack Nicholson, Jessica Prunell, Ken Kesey, Kirsten Dunst, L.M. Montgomery, limes, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Magic Trip, Megan Follows, Mister Rogers Neighborhood, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, PBS, Ramona Quimby, Randle McMurphy, Sarah Polley, Sesame Street, SNL, the '70s, The Baby-Sitters Club, The Electric Company, TV
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