January 2010
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You Say Good-Frye...I Say Hello.
For over one year…I lusted after a pair of black Frye Harness boots. I was enthralled by their ability to maintain the perfect balance between classic and tough. I pictured wearing them in place of fugly Ugglies, flipity flops and perhaps even spikey stilettos, if the occasion presented itself.
On Christmas Day…Santa Claus was sweet enough to have them waiting for me underneath the...
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I'll Make the Other Half of Your Face Blue
Sports have never been my ‘thing’. I rarely enjoy watching them, rarely enjoy playing them and rarely understand them. When I tried out for the basketball team in eighth grade, I broke my middle finger and that was the last of my future WNBA career. Consequently, the middle finger on my right hand curves awkwardly to the right. In high school I joined the swim team, but quit the night...
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I Get By with a Little Self-help
I love self-help books. There, I said it. Love them, love them, love them. In fact, I’ve probably read hundreds over the years, ranging in everything from When You and Your Mother Can’t be Friends to my most recent pick today, The Joy of Doing Things Badly by Veronica Chambers. Which, in case you are curious, I found intermittently lagging albeit interesting enough to read in one...
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Beethoven and Coldplay?
Happy Hour at the Symphony! is exciting to me for a number of reasons…
1) It marks a the middle of the winter. The more happy hours that pass, the sooner the spring will be here.
2) I feel like quite the intellectual telling people I have plans to go to the symphony.
3) Why it’s called happy hour…free food and cocktails, yippee!
This year Happy Hour at the Hilbert Circle...
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No One Died. Oh, and I saw Avatar.
It’s taken me a few days to recover from all that was the dinner/entertaining experience. Overall, I think it was a success; our guests went home full, happy and I’m suspecting mildly intoxicated, which is all a good host can hope for really. I haven’t heard word from them since, so I’m just going to go ahead and assume they’re still alive and kicking. The menu...
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Entertaining a Stranger
My mom is an incredible cook who loves to entertain. I grew up eating gourmet meals and artichokes at a proper dining room table. Frozen dinners and pizzas in front of the TV were only to be indulged in under the care of a braced mouth babysitter. Some of my fondest childhood memories are dressing my little brother in drag and sending him into the dining room to entertain my parent’s dinner...
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Healthy is Harder than it Looks
In light of recent events, my lifestyle habits have drastically improved. Okay, maybe drastically is an exaggeration, it’s not like I started a cleanse or anything (gross) but I haven’t had any fast food in three weeks - that’s right, not even McDonald’s. >sigh<
First, let me start by saying I’ve been a struggling vegetarian for about six years now. The...
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Not Feeling at Home in Indiana
Last Sunday, Beau and I left Indy for a three day trip to Disney World. Six days later, we returned. Aside from the fact that it was so cold I had to wear my ski jacket around the Magic Kingdom, and I lost feeling in my fingers sometime after “It’s a Small World”, it was a great trip. So great in fact that I was able to convince Beau to extend it for a few extra days so we could...
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Excuse me. May I borrow your Grandmother?
For the last year and a half, I’ve been working on a research project about “Wise Women” with a former Professor. It’s been an incredible experience so far and the last few days have been no exception. I’ve just completed the transcription an interview of a seventy-two year old African American woman. Now, I’ve never met this woman, nor do I know her identity but I do know her story. Her story is...
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Leave Your Poor Resolutions Alone
As if a hangover on New Year’s Day wasn’t enough, someone thought it would be a good idea to take their shame, guilt, lack of accountability, or other emotional disasters and turn them into something positive. And so resolutions were born.
They say (and by “they”, I mean the Wikipedia article I Googled) that only 12% of people keep their New Year’s resolutions. I find this incredibly...
