Monthly Archives: March 2007
Say No To Plastic Bags
While I have long been an advocate of bringing my own grocery bags to the market, I decided to take on Tiffany’s March challenge and really count how many plastic bags I was letting creep into my life in one … Continue reading
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How to Improve Your Child's Test Scores
For those of you with children in the public school system in California, state testing is just around the corner (end of April for us). These days, at the middle school where I work, a student’s CST scores pretty much … Continue reading
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Here It Goes Again Music Video
Very entertaining choreography on exercise machines. Chad says this video has supposedly had over 12 million hits. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5OODfMo_0Y]
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Mom's Mac and Cheese
Homemade macaroni and cheese is not the best way to watch your figure, but Bella begs for it and occasionally I cave. This recipe is from The Cabbagetown Cookbook (a cafe in the same town as The Moosewood Cafe. good … Continue reading
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mo' Bella
As you might have guessed, one of Bella’s favorite past-times is taking pictures of herself (and her friends). Here are some from yesterday’s school bus ride home. (Oops, sorry, I mean her Escalade ride home – the bottom one is … Continue reading
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that's exciting!
Two people have downloaded the first chapter of the thesis! Maybe one of them will read it and give me feedback. I think it’s much better than the draft I turned in last summer. At this time the only people … Continue reading
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Goethe quote from Barthe's A Lover's Discourse
Just cut this line from the thesis. It’s lived through many a draft (and is now immortalized in the catalog essay being published next month) but tonight it got cut out of the thesis. “Either woe or well-being, sometimes I … Continue reading
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It's getting close…
I spent the entire weekend going over every word of my draft with my friend Ellen. (Thank you Ellen!!) I’m thinking that it’s getting pretty close to being done. I’ve typed in all the changes to the first chapter/intro (which … Continue reading
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Panda Sneeze
The title says it all. Fourteen seconds of mama and baby panda cuteness. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLzvOsQ80k]
AARP Tax Help
I don’t even know what AARP stands for, but I know the AARP Foundation offers an incredible service locally every tax season. They train smart retired folks to help people file taxes for FREE! And not only that, the AARP … Continue reading
Posted in money, work
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