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A Date with My Elementary School Nemesis: Background

Posted in Walk down memory lane, You have to kiss a lot of frogs: Dating, tagged , , , on January 24, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Hair pulling, teasing, pinching, name-calling, tattling, insulting, fighting. Oh boy, did we have a history. Last week I went on a date with my elementary school nemesis. You could say it was a date 2 months in the making. You could say it was a date 20 years in the making. You could say it [...]

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Oh, Christmas Tree

Posted in Cause célèbre: Holidays & Celebrations, Everything has its Season, Walk down memory lane, tagged , , , , on January 12, 2012 | 6 Comments »

If you are ever in New York City and it starts to rain (and you’re in NYC now, the chance is likely), you will be shocked by the volume and velocity at which umbrella sellers pop out of the wood-work (steel-work? concrete-work?). It is as if they lie in wait in manholes, a bulging bag [...]

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Hats Off to Hats

Posted in Walk down memory lane, tagged , on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

One day when I was ten years old, my mother bought me a hat. It was a black, wool, tag-less, newspaper-boy hat, a beret with a bit of a brim really. It looked not unlike the hats the man wears in the picture book classic “Caps For Sale”. It was simple, timeless. It wasn’t pink, [...]

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