Monthly Archives: November 2008
Gay Marriage 101
Teach Your Children Well When Prop 8 was passed this November in California, my kids were stunned. They knew about the proposition, but they assumed it would easily be voted down–after all, why would anyone have a problem with two people … Continue reading
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Miserable Is the Enemy of Kind
Behavior 101 For some reason, when I couldn’t sleep last night (as opposed to when I couldn’t sleep every other night this week), I started thinking about whether or not I’m a kind person. I want to be. Which maybe … Continue reading
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Our Beauty is Their Sadness
The Southern California fires It smells like smoke everywhere you go right now. We can’t keep our windows open because the air outside is so much worse than the air inside. I’m used to the natural air conditioning of living … Continue reading
Being Thankful . . . That November’s Almost Over
A Thanksgiving tradition We have a family tradition at Thanksgiving. One holiday, a long time ago, I handed everyone a different colored Sharpie and told our family and guests to write down whatever they were thankful for at that moment, right on … Continue reading
Knitting Animatedly
I love to knit. I don’t do it as much as I’d like to because . . . well, four kids, two dogs, one cat–the yarn has a way of getting all tangled up when I’m not looking. Still, when the stars … Continue reading
The Art of Blogging
New blog design By “art of blogging,” I mean literally that–I changed the artwork and the design. It was really tough, creative, exhilerating work. No, actually, I just clicked through a bunch of different themes on wordpress and picked this … Continue reading
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Ruminations on a Half-Chewed Snickers Wrapper
There’s a Shakespeare quote that goes something along the lines of “like a dog to his vomit, the fool returns to his folly” (I could look up the exact wording and it would take me precisely ten seconds on Google, … Continue reading
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I’m a Loser
I did it again: I forgot to write something on the calendar and scheduled something else and ended up scrambling today, trying desperately to reconcile the fact that I was committed to two equally important things at exactly the same … Continue reading
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Proof that One Man’s Happiness is Another’s Despair
So I walked into the bedroom where the cat and dog were sleeping on the bed together and, as I entered, the big yellow dog started wagging his tail with happiness at seeing me, only because he was lying on … Continue reading
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