From the monthly archives:

June 2011

Creative Differences

June 7, 2011

My daughter and I have been working on a joint writing project for the past few months and we are having creative differences to the Nth degree. I am going to assume that in this case N is a very high number, like so high that if you have a disagreement with someone to the […]

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I’m Sorry For Your Loss

June 6, 2011

Mama’s friend died a few weeks ago, and she wanted to send his life partner a card. She bought a card from Hallmark, with an appropriate condolences poem. “I want you to think of words that I can add,” she said, showing me the card. “I want to say something like this card says everything […]

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I’m Right, You’re Wrong: Summer Fashion

June 5, 2011

I’m Right, You’re Wrong is back. Dilemma: Should a 12 year old girl get a pair of $58 shorts? Exhibit 1: Disagreers: Marinka and Marinka’s 12 year old daughter. As always, I will not reveal who is Position One and who is Position Two, to preserve the integrity of this post. Position One: Yes! They […]

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Oh, My Nose!

June 2, 2011

I didn’t tell my kids about having the surgery to remove the skin cancer. Mostly because I didn’t tell them about the skin cancer in the first place. It just sounds so scary and they are so young, and yet old enough be scared of the word. They have friends whose parents have had cancer, […]

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Post Surgery Update

June 1, 2011

Hi! I’m back! I survived the cancer surgery! If you’re wondering how long I’m going to milk this, the answer is a long time, baby. A long, long time. And now I’m going to update you on my surgery in chronological bullet format. All times are approximate. 7 am: I wake up! Yay that I […]

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