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Christmas has a self esteem problem.  Or maybe our society does.  We respond to our…

…On Hitchens

It could be argued that the lifetime process of growing up involves an increasing understanding…

No Power and All’s Well

What I notice most is the silence. I would think it would be the back-of-the-scariest-closet…

The Great Unfriend Project

I joined Facebook on December 27, 2007.  I know because my first profile pic, a…

Let It Snow

Life is sweet. It is a Sunday, a stop-and-take-a-breath day in any week, but more…

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30 Essays in 30 Days

…on Christmas’ Self Esteem Issues

Christmas has a self esteem problem.  Or maybe our society does.  We respond to our inadequacies and emotional bankruptcy by pimping out  Christmas, putting garish make-up on it and prancing it out for an embarrassing show.  I wish we’d stop. Christmas has always been wonderful.  It is a cinnamony, pine-scented thing, a time of hopes…

Day # 30 – A Celebration in Chocolate

Today I bought myself an entire box of Russell Stover chocolates. You know those boxes you get for Mother’s Day and your birthday sometimes (or, for the guys, the ones you buy)? It turns out they are sitting right there in the store, just waiting for you to buy them for yourself. I will be…

Date # 15 – A Threesome

From the 51 First Dates After Divorce Project blog: Yes, that’s right, I had a threesome on Date # 15.  I didn’t know it was going to happen until right before it started.  My date texted me about it a half hour before and I figured in the spirit of 51 First Dates and being…

Time for the Dream Act to Pass

The conversation around immigration has been hijacked by xenophobes and enemies of migration and people of color and.  It’s time we took it back on behalf of thinking and compassionate (read: most) Americans. The comments on a recent opinion piece on the AFL-CIO blog discussing the failure of the DREAM Act highlighted the severity of…

Day # 11 – How Much is Too Much on Facebook?

Time magazine recently did a cover story on the Facebook phenomenon. Remember 5 years ago you didn’t know what it was? Now, I learned in Time , Facebook is about to welcome its 500 millionth member. If Facebook was a country, it would have a population bigger than the United States. One in four people…

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…on Christmas’ Self Esteem Issues

Christmas has a self esteem problem.  Or maybe our society does.  We respond to our inadequacies and emotional bankruptcy by pimping out  Christmas, putting garish make-up on it and prancing it out for an embarrassing show.  I wish we’d stop.…

…On Hitchens

It could be argued that the lifetime process of growing up involves an increasing understanding…

Day # 11 – How Much is Too Much on Facebook?

Time magazine recently did a cover story on the Facebook phenomenon. Remember 5 years ago…

The Great Unfriend Project

I joined Facebook on December 27, 2007.  I know because my first profile pic, a…

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