Monthly Archives: December 2008

When Friends Disappear

December 29, 2008
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When Friends Disappear

Or, the Christmas Card That Ate My Friends It’s that time of year again– the time when I start fuming about Christmas cards. I love sending Christmas cards. Sure it’s time-consuming and tedious, but there is just...

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“And Unto Them a Peep Was Born…

December 25, 2008
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“And Unto Them a Peep Was Born…

…and they wrapped them in swaddling cellophane and laid them in a cardboard cradle. “And lo the angel of merchandising appeared to them in an ad and said unto the lowly housewives on...

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Our First Christmas

December 23, 2008
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Our First Christmas

Of course it isn’t. But it is, really. Because Colin and I are spending Christmas, each of us–for the first time in over 18 years– at home. Here’s our first Christmas tree together. We got it pre-cut...

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American Things I Love: Stacy and Bryan

December 19, 2008
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American Things I Love: Stacy and Bryan

Or, The Continuing Saga of the Toast Rack In a new series I am offering, English Things I Miss, I recently I opined about the great mystery of the toast rack. A mainstay...

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Home, Here and There

December 17, 2008
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Whenever I stop myself from trying too hard and whenever I look and see what it is I am searching for, it Is almost certainly the long, wide flat spaces of home, the first. It is...

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The Gauntlet

December 13, 2008
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I love flying out of small airports… There is nothing better than the 15 foot walk from entryway to checkin. Don’t get me wrong — I still reminisce about the Heathrow days, when long security lines snaked around...

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Diametric Adoration

December 11, 2008
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Diametric Adoration

In the middle of my procrastination/break from grading, I visited my email and Google reader and found good stuff from two different women in my life… oh they make me SO crazy! First, there’s HEATHER! Heather the green...

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Steeling Myself

December 8, 2008
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The good news is that I have completed a semester’s worth of teaching. The bad news is that I must somehow complete a semester’s worth of grading, if I can, in four and half days. That includes those...

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A Jonas Brother Amongst Us.

December 4, 2008
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A Jonas Brother Amongst Us.

I was having a perfectly lovely lazy Thanksgiving when I notice a young teeny bopper-ish boy performing during halftime of the game that was on TV. He was pretty cute, I thought. Dark curly hair,...

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The Leaving Song

December 3, 2008
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The Leaving Song

I’ve been getting attached to things that aren’t mine anymore, things that have moved on, most especially since I have been reading the “American Heritage Cookbook and Illustrated History of Eating & Drinking.” It was published in...

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