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Category Archives: School
Waiting Game
After tying double knots in our shoelaces and crying to get what we want, the art of lining up is one of the first lessons we learn as a child. We lined up for lunch, we lined up for field … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Friends, Humor, Life Lessons, Nostalgia, School, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged alphabetical order, field trips, grade school, line-up, mob mentality, waiting in line
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Modern Tourism
When I was a kid, my parents took me on a week-long road trip from Chicago to Boston. It was disguised as a learning experience, but I’m pretty sure my dad just wanted to play golf across half the country. … Continue reading
Posted in 80s, Commentary, Family, Food, Friends, Humor, Life, Mobile, Nostalgia, Phone, School, Social Media, Travel, Uncategorized, Work
Tagged Boston, technology, tourism, tourist, vacation
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How to Seem Super Smart
In sixth grade, I won the class spelling bee because my esteemed rival tossed a “c” at the beginning of the word “kindergarten.” My victory proved once and for all that I was the smartest kid in the entire class … Continue reading
Posted in 80s, Commentary, Friends, Humor, Life, Nostalgia, School, Work
Tagged faking smarts, faux, intelligence, spelling bee, wisdom
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Don’t Know Much About History
I just returned from a long weekend in the Chicago suburbs to celebrate my cousin’s high school graduation. As I listened to the bittersweet speeches from students and faculty and watched the pride in parents’ faces as their child’s name … Continue reading
Posted in 80s, Family, Food, Humor, Life, Life Lessons, Nostalgia, School, Uncategorized
Tagged class, classroom, graduation, gym class, high school, history, math, science
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When I Was Your Age
I recently celebrated my brother’s seventh birthday at a magical place called Chuck E. Cheese’s. From the golden tokens being manually jiggled into their slots to the rogue skee-balls rolling around the floor to the kids pooling their tickets to … Continue reading
Posted in 80s, Commentary, Friends, Home, Humor, Life, Mobile, Nostalgia, Phone, School, Social Media
Tagged birthday, cassette tapes, encyclopedia, Lifetime, VHS
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Fall De-Cluttering
Clutter has always been a dirty word in my life. Growing up, “out with the old” was an unspoken family motto. At the outset of each school year I was encouraged to clean out last year’s leg warmers before getting … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Family, Fitness, Holidays, Home, Humor, Life, Nostalgia, School, Social Media
Tagged autumn, back-to-school, clutter, de-clutter, declutter, DVR, fall, throw pillows, TiVo
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Out Sick
DJ Tanner was my idol. She had the greatest bangs, she got to sing onstage with the Beach Boys, and she was an all-around good girl which afforded her a free pass on some occasional bad behavior. So when DJ … Continue reading
Posted in 80s, Commentary, Family, Health, Home, Humor, Life, Nostalgia, School, Work
Tagged day off, DJ Tanner, Ferris Bueller, flu, Full House, home sick, school, sick day, sick kid
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I’d Rather Be Shopping for School Supplies
Bikinis are on the clearance rack, Michael’s and JoAnn’s have begun decking the halls, and the CW is airing Gossip Girl previews – all unsettling clues that the end of summer is upon us. Yet while the years of three-month … Continue reading
Posted in 80s, Commentary, Friends, Humor, Life, Nostalgia, School
Tagged gym class, Lisa Frank, Mr Sketch markers, notebooks, protractor, school supplies, smelly markers, trapper keeper
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White Elephant in the Room 
How to be Brilliantly Vague: Corporate Jargon Part 2
I once had a professor who enjoyed incorporating unnecessarily lengthy words in his lectures. At first he sounded brilliant and I hung on his every really long word. Alas, this was a class in accounting rather than rhetoric, so it … Continue reading →