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So I’m watching CNN, and an ad comes on for a show “CNN Heroes,” in which they celebrate a do-gooder helping the world in some way. This particular episode they were advertising [...]

About my first time. Yep, I made a video.

My favorite thing I’ve seen today. Such a fun image. And so true! The interwebs can be a magical place.      

There she was, imposing, although she was clear across the room. Her skin was luminous. The angle of her head gave her a somewhat haughty air, her dress stunning, as if she was about to go out [...]

Yep, it’s that time of year again… the YA Scavenger Hunt is getting under way on October 4th. If you’ve never participated before, it’s a fun blog hop that gives you a [...]

Had to click, didn’t you? Curiosity is perhaps our greatest asset as humans. We think that weapons and military might make us strong, but, really, it’s ideas that give us power. [...]

I watched every Republican and Democratic primary debate this election season. Every one. Yes, even the ones where it seemed like the Republicans had unloaded a clown car onstage and everyone [...]

It was my pleasure to be MC at the annual CoFiA fundraiser this past Friday. I was humbled to be among so many people doing such important work to improve the lives of immigrants in our [...]

I have a complicated cultural background. Born in Spain to parents who were also born in Spain but raised in Argentina, I was never sure what to bring to my school’s “We Are All [...]

Every two weeks, my town’s DPW comes along collecting “Big Trash.” It’s a day in which you could put out a circus clown car full of wiggling eels and they’d [...]

When I was a junior in high school, I convinced my English teacher to let me do my big year-end paper on Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. I can’t remember where I first found the book [...]

I’m a big believer that if you’re trying to force something to happen, it’s probably not meant to be. So it was when my kids were away and I wanted to surprise them upon their [...]

The breeze coming in through the window of my office is spectacular. I’ve worked downstairs a lot during the summer, a thing I tell myself is for comfort, but can sometimes result in me [...]

It’s actually a teensie bit late in the season, but I’ve been crazy busy and I’m only now getting to it: iris buying season! For those of you following along at home, [...]

I had a one-and-a-half-year-old and a newborn on the day that the World Trade Center fell. I had taken the latter part of the summer off to take care of my baby, but was trying to motivate to get [...]

News just broke that Huma Abedin is finally dropping Anthony Weiner like the horny little hot potato that he is. Damn, that took so much longer than it should have. But, yes, she is finally [...]

I don’t like working out under the best of circumstances, but CrossFit is a special kind of hell. Designed with the idea that lifting ridiculous amounts of weight lots and lots of times is [...]

When I was a kid I used to love to sit on the rickety stairs of our old rental house at night, look up at stars and wonder who was out there. Years before I heard the old Carl Sagan line, [...]

Do I write an inordinate amount about my bed? I seem to recall several posts about it already. The thing is I LOVE IT SO MUCH. It is a haven and a place of peace and quiet joy. A have spent a [...]