May 2012
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It Started in Low Then It Started to Grow
I’d like to take a moment to remind everybody of the importance of having an extra and charged camera battery. Having this might allow you to get a full video of your child’s first onstage performance as opposed to a few seconds hastily snatched with a cell phone camera.
With that out of the way:
Shortly after the audience laughs, there is a single voice that’s drowning out...
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Intentions and Day Four
I’d fallen and I couldn’t get up.
I’m exaggerating. I was actually in a crouched position with 40+ pounds of child on my back who was exclaiming, “Let’s go, Mommy! Horsey ride! [whinny]”
Off to one side, my husband asked, “Why are you making the horse noises when you’re getting the ride?” Turning to me, he said, “Well, let’s go....
April 2012
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Try Crashing This, Technology!
“What lies before us, and what lies behind us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This Is How the World Ends: Not With a Bang, But a...
- gray screen. A horrible gray screen that was preceded by the Rainbow Lollipop of Death.
In less-dramatic terms: my computer died. Tomorrow, I’m taking it to the Mac store to see if they can recover the files. On the bright side, I was unhappy with the way my novel turned out and had planned to rewrite almost everything from scratch.
That starts today, by the way. I’m nervous: even...
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And I'm Not Fooling!
I had a really great birthday. Every time I try to post the details, however, my jerk-face cat starts some new mischief.
Perhaps he’s angry because I have him working overtime to catch that red dot?
Untitled from April on Vimeo.
March 2012
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The Moon (and Jupiter)
One of the last things I did on one of my last visits home was to look at the sky.
I could hear the sound of the wind splitting apart as cars rushed through on the not-too-distant Genesee Avenue. I could hear the cars themselves: dulled rumblings and revving of engines and perhaps the motion of tires on streets that were a medium shade of charcoal. Closer to me, the leaves whispered as the...
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Purple
On the right is a standard-size guitar pick. On the left is the bruise I acquired when Wednesday’s bus made a sudden stop and I went flying towards the front. It’s growing every day (the bruise, not the bus…unless it’s possible that the bus is actually a Transformer. In that case, we should be afraid. We should be very afraid).
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
Original chocolate chip cookies recipe from Martha Stewart Living
The measurements for the dry ingredients have remained the same. In lieu of eggs, I substituted five tablespoons of unsweetened applesauce. One cup of coconut oil replaced the butter. The consistency was runnier as a result, but this was easily fixed by covering the mixing boil with foil and placing it in the freezer for 20...
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Hmph. Fickle.
This is part of the five seconds before Bug - who had spent all of the winter asking when he could go outside to ride his scooter - decided he didn’t want to do this anymore.
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A Little Simpson's Humor
I have to say: the kiddo is good about self-regulating. Even though he had the whole cookie jar at his disposal, he took only three. Two were for the moment. He asked that I please put away the third (pictured above) so that he could have it the next day.
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I Am Truly Blessed
The knock on the door had a confidence and persistence that negated the possibility of it belonging to my neighbor or one of his slack-jawed breathren. Through the peephole, I could make out two figures who were adults and nicely dressed. Still, I put on my mean face as I opened the door just an inch and prepared to scare them off.
It turned out that I knew them!
I was supposed to hang out...
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Yesterday, we went to the reality show version of “Dante’s Inferno.” Most people know it as “the Children’s Museum during March break.”
There was much screaming from the children while many adults stood by with zombie-like eyes that said they had given up on parenting about three days ago.
We stayed for a little over an hour, a.k.a. the point when I thought my...
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Half Asian. Half Good With Numbers.
Me: Your auntie is celebrating a big birthday! Guess how old she’s going to be. Bug: Seven. Me: Older. Bug: Ten! Me: Older. Bug: Four. Me: I said older. Bug: Six. Me: She’s going to be 50. Bug: Just like Mommy! Me: NOT AT ALL LIKE MOMMY. Bug: (giggles)
February 2012
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My Overview of Valentine's Day: Past and Present
Valentine’s Day did not get a lot of recognition in my home when I was growing up. By that, I mean it wasn’t a holiday when my mom would stay up all night cooking pancit and rolling lumpia. I would wake up to a nice card and some chocolate, but that was it.
I spent my teenage years pining for a Valentine, mostly because I was inexperienced enough to think that love plays out...
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January 2012
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Literarily
Bug: I want more noodles!
Me: There aren't any more. You ate the last serving.
Bug: Give me some of yours!
Me: Look, kid: I'm not the freaking "Giving Tree." *muttering* Trying to take everything until I'm just a stump on the ground...
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Theme Thursday: Books
I traveled for over an hour on a highway partly hidden by snow, and then down a rural route that was mostly dark and slightly slippery. All of this was done to claim the one copy of a book that had not yet been borrowed (and on which were approximately 400 holds).
This is the book that started me back on the road to visiting my local library, not because of the effort of driving so far (and in...
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An Old Man Crosses the Road...
I really miss my dad today.
It’s not because of anything extraordinary. Today is neither a birthday nor an anniversary, and I didn’t see anything so spectacularly overwhelming that all I could think was, “Aw, Dad…”
I find it’s the small things that get me thinking. I saw an older man walking across the street (jaywalking! Scandalous!). He was shorter than my...
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