Friday, November 24, 2006

The People's Choice

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My uncle has Parkinson's Disease and with each passing day, his world gets smaller and more isolated. To make him feel a little more con...

Lesson learned

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I can be rather self critical at times, but here's one of my good qualities: I have nearly infinite patience with kids and pets. It'...
Thursday, November 23, 2006

Trying to look at the glass differently

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Yesterday afternoon, while shopping at Carson's (which is most definitely NOT my beloved and most mourned Marshall Field's), I felt ...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

What a cool birthday gift THIS would be!

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There's a rumor floating about that my beloved may be returning to me. Barry Rozner of The Daily Herald spoke to Greg Maddux (who was o...

Why I Love the Internet

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I admit that on some days I do not eagerly open my emails. This is not one of those days. So far I have received a free movie pass from the ...

You say it's your birthday. It's my birthday, too, yeah.

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Yes, it's the old girl's birthday. I'm spending this evening with my oldest friend. I believe we're having stir fry … and a ...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

The heart of the matter

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I first met my friend "John" back in 1981. It was my first advertising job. He'd already been there about four years and was b...
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Monday, November 20, 2006

In praise of Helen Mirren

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Watched the latest, and it looks like the final, Prime Suspect on PBS last night and was once again bowled over by Helen Mirren. Her perform...
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Sunday, November 19, 2006

That was fun

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Had a terrific time at Toys R Us. Cesar, honey, you are set! I discovered Hot Wheels Truckin' Transporters … Trucks that can carry Hot W...
Saturday, November 18, 2006

Merry Christmas, Dear Cesar

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I requested a Santa letter from the Chicago Sun-Times. Through this program, a child who lives below the poverty line writes to Santa, the l...

I love my doctors

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I know a lot of people who have horror stories about their doctors. I'm not one of those people. I have been battling perimenopausal dep...

Baghdad vs. New Orleans

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The pundits keep saying that the election results were a referendum on the Administration's Iraq policy, that the electorate is angry ab...

My favorite headline

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"PRESIDENT BUSH VISITS VIETNAM FOR THE FIRST TIME" It's about frigging time. Why didn't you bring Cheyney with you? It wou...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

I want Elliott and Liv!

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I'm watching a Law & Order: SVU rerun. Elliott and Olivia are sitting outside on a curb, sharing their thoughts, partner to partner,...

And they tell me how to live

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Fox, the media conglomerate that pays Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity and all the other arbiters of morality when it comes to reproductiv...

But this is today's BIG news

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Yes, I know. I've heard. McCain was posturing on the Hill today, grilling General Abizaid. OJ is going to tell us all how he did it, If ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

So, hello, Gorgeous!

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Oh, look who is on The Daily Show . He is a charmer. And while John Edwards does a cursory plug for his book and answers questions about Ira...

Saving me from myself

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I keep getting a "system too busy" message from Pogo! That gives me nothing to do but throw out some of the paper that's litte...
Monday, November 13, 2006

Sad but true

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Actually overheard while waiting in line for Borat : "I wanna see Bobby . Lindsay Lohan is in it." I look at that poster, see the ...

I wanted to love it ...

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… but, alas, I only liked Borat . I think that even at only 84 minutes, it's a little long. The segment where our hero ruins the antique...

The dirty little secret behind the Senator's joke

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Senator Kerry botched what would have been an unfunny joke. That's one thing that happened just before the election. The other thing tha...

Lonely for words unspoken

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I know my best friend trusts me and thinks I'm funny. I also know that he admires my prodigious moral compass, which most people think m...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

The sign does apply to you, too

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One of my neighbors smokes … constantly. I can always tell where she just was because it reeks of smoke. She's very nice, very chatty, a...

Hey! Bonus!

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Tuesday's election is having unexpected but positive aftershocks here in the Chicagoland area. Congressmen Luis Guitierez and Jesse Jack...
Saturday, November 11, 2006

She really was that good

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I'm watching The Wizard of Oz . Again. And this time I am amazed by how perfect Judy was. I know … duh! But tonight I am keenly aware th...

Hello, I'm Old

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According to the E! THS (on now), Kevin Federline has long had an incredible impact on women. The girls in his high school were in love with...
Friday, November 10, 2006

Showing the kids how it's done

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Saw a story on one of the magazine shows about how Sir Paul McCartney handled the paparazzi this week. I believe he was in Washington, DC. H...

Enjoying a rainy Friday night

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It's cold and rainy and windy out there. Just walking home from the train I got completely soaked. Now I'm warm and I'm dry and ...

One of my more enduring heroes

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How can you not love old Julius? I first became acquainted with Groucho when I was in high school. Fortunately he was still alive in those d...

Halp us Mr. Rumzfield. In Amerika we R stoopid.

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As he left his position as Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld reminded the nation one more time about "this little understood, unfamiliar w...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

The autumn of my discontent

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I'm suffering from that free floating, completely non-specific malaise again. Nothing is really wrong . It's just that nothing is re...

Farewell, Rummy

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Donald Rumsfeld is really easy to demonize because he's such a stereotypical rich old white guy. He knows better than you, Missy, about ...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

The politics of faith

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One of the reasons I'm happy about yesterday's nationwide election results is that now, perhaps, government will go back to being mo...
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Today's best headline …

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K-FED UP! That's courtesy the folks at Eonline. Apparently Britney Spears and her staggeringly fertile husband just can't make a go ...
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Yes, I would say that was a "bad day"

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At first the death of actress Adrienne Shelley was thought to be a suicide. But a construction worker has admitted killing her and then tryi...