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Category Archives: Friends
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
I’ve added a new word to my vocabulary since I’ve moved to Colorado: “neighborly.” I’ve never had cause to use the word myself, although I vaguely remember Mom once say, “well, shooting our shutters with a BB gun wasn’t exactly neighborly.” … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Home, Humor
Tagged colorado, moving, Mr. Rogers, neighbor, neighborhood, neighborly
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Adverbiably
With the proliferation of abbreviations, emoticons and emojis masquerading as words in our emails and text messages, we somehow seem to be wordier than ever when it comes to our conversational tactics. In particular, we have been plagued by the … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Humor, Uncategorized, Work, Writing
Tagged actaully, adverbs, frankly, personally, Rhett Butler, Stephen King
50 Comments
10 Greatest Holiday Movie Moments
I get sentimental every year Linus uses his blanket as a tree skirt for Charlie Brown’s sad sad tree, I’m on the edge of my seat when Frosty gets stuck inside the hot green house in Frosty the Snowman and … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Friends, Holidays, Humor, Movies, Nostalgia
Tagged christmas, griswold, holiday, home alone, made-for-tv, movie, white christmas, wonderful life
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How to Let Yourself Go During the Holidays
‘Tis the season for guilt. From too-many-drumsticks guilt to you-have-a-present-for-me-and-I-don’t-have-a-present-for-you guilt, we all indulge in some good old fashioned self-shaming during the holidays. From the moment the school supplies go on clearance to make way for the Iron Man costumes, … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Cooking, Family, Food, Friends, Health, Holidays, Humor
Tagged christmas, holidays, indulge, resolutions, season, Thanksgiving
18 Comments
How to Move Five Minutes Away
Shortly after celebrating my three year move-aversary from my Arizona house to my gorgeous California resort-style apartment, I mentally calculated the fortune I’ve been putting into nothing since 2010. Since I couldn’t go back in time and buy a Tesla, … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Friends, Home, Life Lessons
Tagged boxes, cheap, movers, moving, packing, u-haul
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Operation… and Other Games that Make Us Better
I love pasta. It’s a deep love, a passionate love, a two syllable lo-ove. And sometimes you do crazy things for love. So the other night when I was making a little rotini and one fell ever-so-dramatically under the burner, … Continue reading
Posted in 80s, Cooking, Family, Food, Friends, Humor, Life Lessons, Nostalgia, Uncategorized
Tagged games, jenga, operation, sorry, super mario bros, tetris, twister
27 Comments
Better Never Than Early
I recently discovered this pretty nifty little device called an iPhone – it’s kind of like an iPod but you can make calls on it and apparently it’s all the rage. I decided I should probably buy one and I’m … Continue reading
Posted in 80s, Commentary, Friends, Humor, Nostalgia, Phone, Social Media
Tagged early adopter, early adoption, fashion faux pas, fashion forward, iphone, technology
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White Elephant in the Room 
The Dos and Don’ts of Foolin’
The scene is Christmas Day 1991. Snow falls in the Chicago suburbs as an eleven year old girl in red snowman socks (that she still owns) wakes up at 7AM and runs to the tree to scope out the loot. … Continue reading →