Road Warrior

Posted by on Jun 24, 2011 in dish | 0 comments Today, mimi flies home after two full weeks on the road. The days have been a blur of essay reading and presentation, first as a reader for the AP English Language and Comp exam, then as a trainer for AVID. Now, 1,981 essays (yes, you read that right) and four days of workshops later, I am packing my trusty sapphire Lands’ End lighthouse rolly suitcase for the last time.At first, the travel was...
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Orange Blossom Special

Posted by on Mar 4, 2011 in dish | 0 comments The key scene in Marcel Proust’s À la recherce du temps perdu, or Remembrance of Things Past, is the madeleine episode, where the smell and taste of a cookie transports the narrator back to his childhood. (You can see a cartoon version of this famous French scene in the Pixar film Ratatouille). This happens to me every spring when the orange trees bloom.When we first moved to Central Florida, we...
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Housewifely

Posted by on Feb 21, 2011 in dish | 0 comments No school today (thanks, Presidents Washington and Lincoln!), so you know what that means…chore time! Days off like this come so infrequently that they often devolve into catch-up-on-errands free-for-alls. You know, compulsive counter wiping, or cooking, or laundrygasms. That sort of thing.Want to know a dirty secret? We kinda likes it, Precious. mimi rolls out of the house at 6:45 every...
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Deva Diva

Posted by on Sep 17, 2010 in dish | 0 comments Ladies, can we just admit that our longest, most frustrating relationship in the world isn’t with a man, but with our hair? If you’re a curly like me who grew up in the stick-straight Marsha Brady ’70s, you know what I’m talking about. So it was with relief and joy that I discovered the Bible for hair like mine, Lorraine Massey’s amazing Curly Girl.Ms. Massey, who underwent curly trauma growing...
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Perspective

Posted by on Sep 11, 2010 in dish | 0 comments It’s so tempting to spend time dwelling–well, carping really–on all of your issues. Why your life is screwed up. Why things never seem to go right. Why there’s never enough time to get all those tasks around the house finished so you have time to do what you want. As we used to say in college, BBATTB. (Bitch, bitch, all the time bitch)Thankfully, we also have opportunities for a...
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