Category: Friends & Family
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Hope is the only antidote to fear.
The news called her “an Internet sensation” but to me, she was just my friend. — For 3 days I have wanted to write about Elizabeth, and for 3 days I have had nothing to show you but one line, written above. I keep coming back to this post and staring at it. How can…
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Healthy eating kickstart
So, I’m on a diet. Not a “real” diet. I say that because it only lasts 3 days. I heard about it on the Today Show and I thought it’d be a great start to this healthy eating concept I’d like to follow. So, I suckered Anil into doing it with me, and I realized…
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What’s your kryptonite?
I didn’t wear shorts between the ages of sometime around 8 and sometime around 30. Why not? Because I couldn’t. Every time I wore them as a kid, I got teased. “I’m blinded!” some would say. “There’s a ghost in here!” I heard a lot. My skin is pale. Really pale. I’m not sure I’ve…
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Make your friends accountable for your productivitity. It works.
As an update to my to-do list post, I am feeling very productive and accomplished, especially considering I have been fighting a chest cold for almost 2 weeks now (yes, I’m going to the doctor today.) Just so I can pat myself on the back before deleting it all and making a new list: …
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Sniper cars and bomber shacks and photographs that will make you cry
Ok, so I showed you the bathrooms of this place already. But that’s nowhere near the coolest part. I’m not a huge museum person. Well, I am and I’m not. I always enjoy going but I typically like to just visit certain exhibits that call my name. I don’t need to look at everything. This…
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Coffee, conversation and procrastination fees
It all started with an incorrect passport and not-so-good health insurance. Last week as Susan and I had coffee, and then beers when the coffeeshop closed (yes, she’s one of those can-talk-for-hours-together friends), we discussed to-do items. Namely, the type of to-do items that nag away at us and we stress about them far longer…
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Charlotte through another’s eyes
Anil is the biggest jetsetter I know. And I totally admire and envy him for it. And when he visited Charlotte for the first time he fell in love with it. “I can’t believe it’s so green!” he kept saying. And it really opened my eyes to all the things that are beautiful about the…
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For Anil, on his 32nd birthday
Because now he can’t use old jokes against me anymore. For at least a few months. = You can’t call it happy hour anymore. You have to start calling it “early bird special.” = It’s a good thing you like grits because you might have to start eating soft food soon. = Just because it’s…
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2011: less running, more writing
The obligatory 2010 post: I’m not going to go into a huge play-by-play of the year. You have the archives for that! But I will say I started out the year at Wade’s house, drinking his home brewed beer (yum!) and hanging out in the hot tub. I imagine I may finish the year the same way ……
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Sadie, the 2-year-old bottomless pit
As an oldest child, I can say that it’s not that we didn’t want our younger siblings to have good toys. It’s that we didn’t want them to have better toys than us. Same with good grades, fun birthday parties and desserts. I see myself in my oldest niece, Mia. When her 2-year-old sister Sadie…