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Time To Throw Away the College Guides

How I Forgave My Parents For Disowning Me

I Used To Stalk Our Neighbors When My Kids Were Little

Sh*t Girls Say to Girls with Breast Cancer

“Is it the bad kind?” — Jenny Saldana Fell. On. The. Floor. Laughing. Jenny Saldana is a writer, actress and breast cancer survivor. These are things she heard while going through her own breast cancer story. I love that she kept a sense of humor; this video is shockingly hilarious (if you’ve been through a […]

Ode to Tucker

“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.” — James Thurber Today is all about Tucker, our 4 year old Pembroke Welsh Corgi, the same type of dog that the Queen of England has. Tucker was a big […]

How To Get A Teenager To Clean Their Room (Or Not)

Ah, to be a 16 year old boy. My son dislikes cleaning his room, and in fact seems to prefer to live amidst a state of constant chaos. When I was young, I was really messy and my mother, who lived by the rule that “Cleanliness is next to godliness” used to do crazy, periodic […]

Memories Of My Grandmother’s Cooking

As we’d enter the hallway of her apartment building, the smells of Grandma Schmidt’s crispy fried potatoes and roasted chicken would float down the stairwell so strongly that we’d all begin to salivate within moments of walking in the door. We’d talk about it on the way up the stairs, murmuring among ourselves about how […]

The Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

On Saturday we watched the 2014 Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. It was filled with a gold mine of icons from my youth like Peter Gabriel, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens, Hall & Oates, The E Street Band and Nirvana. OK, so Kiss was also inducted, but I’ve never been too big on […]

Time To Throw Away the College Guides

How I Forgave My Parents For Disowning Me

I Used To Stalk Our Neighbors When My Kids Were Little

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