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A Time to Change 16 Nov 2011 | 02:21 am
Growing up, I learned lots of things from The Brady Bunch. The sadness of pet allergies. Caution in the face of flying footballs. How – no matter the convenience – AstroTurf just doesn’t make an aest...
Surburban Cowgirl 26 Oct 2011 | 12:06 pm
Living sub- of the urb means I’m surrounded by a whole lot of loveliness. But while flora and fauna have a lot to recommend them, sometimes it just seems a little… eh. Without the yin of the city, na...
Katy Appleseed 5 Oct 2011 | 10:29 pm
I’m not one of those people who think there’s no “New York” outside of New York City. I know there are lots of beautiful and worthy places beyond the five boroughs – you know, lakes, farms, generic s...
Stairway to (Not Quite) Heaven 27 Sep 2011 | 11:32 pm
And so it has come to this: I now take the stairs… even when I don’t have to. Every morning I get to work and hike up four flights – 96 stairs in all – and arrive on the fifth floor, wheezing like a...
Yetis and Hipster Dads and the PTA: Oh, My! 16 Sep 2011 | 10:50 pm
So, I’m a little PTA-ed out. In the past two weeks, I’ve gotten four emails and several fliers sent home asking me for a time commitment. And every single one of those communications seems directed a...
9/11 9 Sep 2011 | 01:14 pm
Normal 0 0 1 262 1497 12 2 1838 11.1539 0 0 0 I stood in Tompkins Square Park, the lush green of the grass covered with blankets and East Village hipsters. It was an oasis – a bubble of ...
Take Me Out (for Takeout) 2 Sep 2011 | 12:49 pm
Normal 0 0 1 207 1185 9 2 1455 11.1539 0 0 0 I miss the dinnertime safety net of takeout food. “Kate, what’s for dinner?” (Distracted.) “Hmm? What? Uh, I don’t know. What’s in the fridg...
Here Comes the Sun... Again. 26 Aug 2011 | 12:37 pm
So, I think I’m kind of sad that I’m going to miss Hurricane Irene’s big New York debut. And yes, I do realize how that sounds. One projected model via weather.com It’s not that I have some natural...
Stop Me If You've Heard This One... 22 Aug 2011 | 01:55 pm
The grass is always greener on the other side. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, but right now I’m looking at the literal truth of that statement. My sad, sad patch of lawn is parched. The Georgia h...
Fear and Loathing in Las Suburbs 12 Aug 2011 | 02:21 pm
Normal 0 0 1 255 1457 12 2 1789 11.1539 0 0 0 New York school kids scared the hell out of me. The way they swarm and push and fight on the subway. The way they talk like the dirtiest of ...
