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Christmas Traditions: With Bells On
This is me, “forcing festive” on my way to work. Growing up, I would take the big gold bell ornaments and dangle them from my pigtails while I decorated the tree. Jingling all the way, I’m trying to put a brave face on for this holiday. This year, I’ll be home with bells on….if only…
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Christmas Traditions: Sing It Loud
My last Christmas gift this year arrived just in time. Yesterday was again marred by tragedy, and although we survived the apocalypse, sometimes losing a loved one can set your world on edge. In the big, swirling wonder of it all, the futility of life can come into question. Music has always been a great…
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2 Years
2 years ago today the world lost a beautiful, pure soul. Love often. Forgive often. Live each day as your last. Thanks for your legacy, pal. RIP
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Christmas Tradtitions: Feliz Navidad
My family can be described unfavourably as just a wee bit competitive. Take Christmas, for example. Because someone always tries. With the best gift, the most outrageous cookies, the most festive holiday sweater. And then, there’s the family-wide radio contest that has made me jump inside my skin whenever I hear Jose Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad.”…
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Peace
I don’t want to talk too much about the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy. It seems everyone else is doing enough of that as it is. Talking about freedoms and beliefs, and God and Godlessness. Let’s just remember that it wasn’t IDEAS that ripped through the bodies of over 20 adults and children, rendering them destroyed.…
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Christmas Traditions: Cards on Yarn
Perhaps one of the strangest decorations I can remember hanging in my childhood home around Christmas time was a thick, twisted rope of red yarn. It hung in the kitchen against the wall like a clothesline, to string up Christmas cards from years and years ago, people whose names I didn’t recognize, but only the…
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Christmas Traditions: Fakin’ It
Christmas is kinda tough for me, y’all. More lately than ever, I find myself Charlie Brown-ing my way through the season aimlessly. The one upside of not going home to family for Christmas is knowing that I, unlike all you poor schlubs, don’t actually have to do any present shopping. Ha ha. But back to…
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Christmas Traditions: Pour Some Festive Sugar On Me
It wouldn’t be Christmas without Christmas cookies, now would it? This is my second post about Christmas cookies and regardless of the fact that I never find myself actually eating any (why is this?), the baking of Christmas cookies is always such an important part of having a real, family Christmas. Mom, remember the baklava? …
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Always Stuff Your Bra
Nothing is certain in this world, least of all New York City. The only offense is a good defense. And when you’re desperate for a wee, and stoop to use a public restroom, only to find that your stall is devoid of toilet paper, you’ll be glad you have those extra tissues in your bra.
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Christmas Traditions: Doin’ It All Wrong Since…Ever
Unless you’re somehow stumbling upon this page just now for the very first time ever, you will not be surprised to hear that I am, and always have been, and oddball. A rebel. One who marches to the beat of my her own drum. And I always have been. Back when I was but a…
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Community
“That baby has been crying literally – literally – ALL DAY,” I complain to my roommate when she comes home. It’s maybe the fifth straight hour of screams that can’t possibly come from a human being. Kitty-corner across the hall, she goes on for hours and at all times of the day. “How does everyone…
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Employee of the Month
I’ve been busy as a bumblebee around here and yesterday I got a huge surprise. My manager approached me with a camera and a handful of money and said “Congratulations, you’re employee of the month, I have to take your picture.” My immediate response was to blush a fantastic shade of aubergine and sputter thanks: …
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Extinct
During the aftermath of Sandy, I took a few long walks to get out of the house and out of my brain. I walked the Upper West Side and spotted a relic of the past, a dinosaur thought to be long extinct:
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30DHN: Three Wonderful Things That Happened This Month
I made a new friend! I got my tattoos done! And I had a family Thanksgiving!
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30DHN: Something I Could Never Tire Of
My windowsill nook The crazy bathroom storage that screams “tiny Manhattan apartment” Gizmo giving me the coy side-eye in the kitchen Waking up to this view …And having a home to come home to.
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30DHN: A Skill I’d Like to Learn
Many people say they wish they had the ability to juggle, metaphorically. I would really just like to juggle. I would love to be able to perform on demand that feat of lightness and whimsy. I may just be a collector of parlor tricks and jokes, but it seems to have served me well in…
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30DHN: Something I’m Looking Forward To
Don’t we all look forward to the end of the day? I look forward to the end of every day because I never go straight home. This week, I look forward to seeing a friend, going to dinner, and going on a short mini-vacation “upstate”. Never a dull moment.Not unless you let there be.
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30DHN: Something That Makes Me Smile
Looking down at my new tattoos.Watching my reflection in the windows of the subway.And getting photos from my mom of this little guy: