Bert Wilson to you, my friends

June 21, 2011

So we’re at this restaurant celebrating her birthday and they bring the cake. She looks at it and says there was a mistake – she’s got someone else’s cake. Really? Oh, yes. It says “Bert Wilson” right here. They gave me Bert Wilson’s cake! We have to get it back to him! Believe it or [...]

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Never forget being 12

May 24, 2011

“Too many people grow up. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won’t do that.” – Walt Disney It was summer, I was twelve, and we were going to [...]

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Celebrate Non-Judgement Day Today

May 22, 2011

Judgement Day was on my mind yesterday. No, I wasn’t expecting to be raptured. I am not religious in any traditional sense and my views are more in line with my cousin Sarah’s, “God is bigger than all of the religions put together.” But my heart was with my Christian friends. I can hear some [...]

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Why bother? Here’s why…

May 16, 2011

Once upon a time, a woman with a lucrative but boring writing career and a serious case of Empty Nest Syndrome decided on a lark to move halfway across the country to join a tutoring program at a disadvantaged and underperforming high school in the South. As she looked for an apartment and got to [...]

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Unseasonably Chilly

April 20, 2011

Spring is trying to make it here.  Skies brighten up for a few days and then cloud over and then brighten up again. It’s exasperating to hope for warm days and be surprised by a sudden chill. The weather is again mirroring my life. I have been surprised and puzzled by the coldness with which [...]

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