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Small Change
Change, change all around...that's what's been happening lately. Although I can adapt pretty well, I still get nervous, and my nerves always tend to play out through my sleeping patterns and my dreams ( Read more... ) -
11/7/09 - A page a day
So I read this article about writing a memoir. It suggested making a promise to oneself to write one page per day every day for a year. I rather liked that idea, and seeing as how I started on my birthday, I will continue as best I can. Some postings will be for friends, some will be public, some will be private. (I can't reveal all my secrets, you ( Read more... ) -
Got a friend a job today
And I'm stoked. This is why I like the industry I work in - we give people the opportunity to change their lives, to reach their potential, to put food on their family's table.
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Mean Girls: Old Lessons, New Rules
We've all been there (and if you ever meet anyone who hasn't been there don't believe them): All seems well in the Land of Girls when suddenly, and for no apparent reason, the tide turns. You were looking forward to an upcoming event (birthday party, dance, etc.) when a "friend" comes to you and says she hates to be the one to tell you this, but, ( Read more... ) -
Whazzup pussycat?
So it's been awhile since I've been here - I guess I just haven't felt like talking much. Drinking, yes; talking, no ( Read more... ) -
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I've been saying this for years - and here a Department Chair at Columbia agrees with me.
The best Op-Ed piece on higher education I have ever read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html?pagewanted=1&em -
A Day in the Life
Today ( Read more... ) -
Penny's new pet
We have a new addition to the family. It is a blue Siamese fighting fish named "Bubble" (so named because when Penny was holding it in its plasic container on the car ride home from the pet store she asked him his name and he promptly blew a bubble at her). So, it's blue, it lives in a glass vase with green rocks on the bottom, settled more or less ( Read more... ) -
The Gardener
After a particularly annoying day at work I came home and was my typically grinchy, grousing, grumbly self that I usually am when the pre-Christmas, pre-tax, pre-bill time comes around. So tonight, for her pre-bedtime stories, my little one requested several poems from Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses ( Read more... ) -
Happy Bday to my Baby
We celebrated Alice's 5th Birthday on Sunday ( Read more... )