Ten Places You’d Take a Tourist to See in Your Hometown

Posted by mimi on Mar 25, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Love this topic, since I live in Tourist Mecca. Try these on for size when you get sick of Mickey.Maitland Art Center – The coolest little place you’ve never been. Andre Smith founded this artists’ colony in the 20s, and now it’s home to studios, a gallery, and some very cool Mayan fantastic gardens. My kids love going here.Wekiwa Springs State Park – Florida looks...
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Black Is the Color of My Own True Hair

Posted by mimi on Mar 22, 2008 in dish | 3 comments Well, not black, actually, but very, very dark brown. With white. Lots of white. I am my father’s daughter, after all.I finally made the decision to let my hair go natural. Natural, for me, will be lots of grey (white) mixed in with this incredibly dark brown that my mom says came straight off my Charleston great-grandmother’s head. Or maybe my Portuguese great-grandmother from her...
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Banks Suck

Posted by mimi on Mar 19, 2008 in dish | 4 comments One of my stock classroom jokes is “God put me on this earth for a reason, but it was not to teach math.” I tend to screw up simple math, even though I can write out geometry proofs. Go figure. I got the vocabulary, but my sister got my grandmother’s steel-trap mind for numbers.That steel-trap mind would have come in handy tonight. I just spent the last hour on the phone...
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These Words of Mine

Posted by mimi on Mar 15, 2008 in dish | 3 comments I’m not actually channeling Natasha Bedingfield this morning–although DD is obsessively listening to this song and “Unwritten” over and over and over–my sister sent me an internet game yesterday that’s reaping some interesting results. Basically, you reply to that person with one word that you think describes her/him, then forward along to a bunch of your...
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