Category Archives: miscellany

April 10, 2008 – 6:00 am

Back on track

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I finished In Treatment on Wednesday. What a great show that was, complete with satisfying ending, and totally worth the $15 HBO monthly fee. By the end, I noticed my mindset evolving into therapist mode. I caught myself analyzing my thoughts, and wondering what Gabriel Byrne would have to say. In addition, I sobbed during Sophie’s last […]

March 25, 2008 – 6:00 am

The joke was on me

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I am an accomplished time waster. Which is why it took me five (count ’em 1 2 3 4 5) years to frame these two cards and get them hung in the guest bedroom. Finally. And yet, at the same time, I can be tenacious. Once I start something that I am interested in, I […]

March 24, 2008 – 6:00 am

Making lemonade

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Surprise! We’re still here, and you know what that means. Yep, we got hit with snow. Again. Another ten inches, I’d estimate. If you like to look on the bright side, the good news is that our flight was cancelled on Thursday night, so we did not have to spend hours at O’Hare on Friday […]

March 13, 2008 – 6:00 am

Because I am hopeful

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It started out simple enough. I was cold. I was craving the Tuss vneck sweater (for children). I remembered that a couple of years ago, I had purchased a charcoal grey vneck sweater from Lands’ End, but abandoned it because I was “all about the cardigan”. I dug it out of the stack, and it […]

March 11, 2008 – 6:00 am

My media-filled weekend

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The upside to our less than desirable weather has been that, without the distraction of the outdoors, you can get a lot accomplished indoors. And such was my weekend. The New Yorker arrived on Saturday (late, but not “officially” late). Usually, this means a frenzied race to read it before the next issue arrives, but […]