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There is a Gremlin in My Computer -or on OS
During World War II, the concept of a gremlin became popularized. A myth of an entity that gummed up the electronics of airplanes may have originated with aviators from the Royal Air Force. I remember...
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I Don't Hate Christie or Ailes Because They Are Fat! -repost
This is a repost from May 25, 2010. I wrote this because I was incensed on the attack on fat rather than the politics in the case of these two men. Today I saw this video of a Jennifer Livingston, a...
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How Secret is Our Ballot?
Last week my husband posted this statement from a recent Romney speech to a group of small business owners on his Facebook status:I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in...
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Sandy- A New Jersey Suburban Diary
Back to the routine two weeks after Sandy – today the weight room and the conversation was geared around generators. What was the best kind to get heat? Would the town permit a natural gas standby? Was...
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Would My College Have Accepted Me If I Had Sent a Picture?
“I think you are going to have a new business opportunity shooting High School kids’ head shots” I told my photographer friend Pat.“Well my daughter won’t even allow me to take her picture for the...
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Confessions of a Diet Coke Addict
Society has a place for obsessive people. I believe that artists, scientists, lawyers, writers and countless others would never create or solve major problems were it not for their inherent...
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The Cicadas Sound Like Flying Saucers!
When I first heard about “return of the 17-year Cicadas” here in Westfield, New Jersey, I told my husband that I was considering a very long vacation- far away- for the bug reunion. People warned me...
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A Curmudgeon’s Guide to Fitness Classes
Am I really a curmudgeon about classes? I have had a love /hate relationship with “gym classes” since I realized that they were not something I had to do for school credit I hate anyone telling me...
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My Experience with The Master Key System
As I sat in the podiatrist office sticking out my foot for my second injection of cortisone, I looked over my toes, met my doctor’s eyes and said, “You know I don’t need orthotics. I brought this on...
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A Middle-Aged Mom's Guide to Gym Etiquette.
I’ve only been lifting free weights for the past five years, but as an outsider to gym culture, I hope my list will be helpful to those neophytes who find that they have to share small workout...
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Could Nora Ephron Have Been My Step Mother?
My friend Wendy has been telling me for years that my outlook and writing style reminded her of Nora Ephron. I had never read any of Nora Ephron’s essays …until this week. I have a tendency to not want...
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Lessons From Injury
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.Epictetus Once again, I missed a college trip with my daughter to look at Wesleyan University- I just can’t walk that far on a college...
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Arrack is Back?
I traipsed to four stores before I was able to find the Peychaud’s bitters, absinthe and rye whisky that I would need to make my huge batch of Sazeracs for a New Year’s Eve party. At each store, the...
View Article…Eloquence and Social Media…
My ellipses have served me well, if I don’t know how to punctuate something, I just fill in the gaps with ellipses. My eighteen year old daughter recently told me that my use of ellipses ages me as...
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Laboratory Cooking
My relationship with Genspace first began three years ago when I accompanied my fifteen year old daughter from New Jersey to downtown Brooklyn to interview for an internship with the United States’...
View ArticleMy MOOCs
The Scientific American article sat there every time we used the bathroom. I really didn’t have a chance to read it but it involved MOOCs (massive online courses) bringing first rate education to...
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Rude People
Growing up in New York City I learned that it is easy to pick a fight with random strangers. In a dispute over a cut in a long line or who should get the lone taxi cab after waiting in the rain, one...
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Snarky's Third Free Stock IPhone Images for OS
I have increasingly needed to use various copyright free images for group pages etc and I have ended up needing the oddest things. So this last week, I took some pictures that you might be able to...
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In My Gut.
I lie in bed and worry. Am I doing as much as I can for them? How has my husband influenced them? Who has joined them today? They only have life spans of twenty minutes or so and keeping tabs on them...
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