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• christmas, health, writing

  “My whole soul burns most ardently after it”

  12.23.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Through a series of serendipitous events, Dick and I went to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s Ring Christmas Bells concert last weekend. It was being filmed for PBS, and it was the fanciest performance I’ve been to in a long time. Perhaps ever. But as I watched the dancers, in odd (but modest!) angel-nun costumes, and [...]

• health

  Katie Couric and Me: Dick Survives His First Colonoscopy, and So Will You!

  08.30.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Dick’s maternal grandfather died of colon cancer at the age of 43. He was diagnosed about 18 months before that, and left behind a wife and three children. When I realized that Dick would be turning 33 next month, and that we have three children I cannot raise alone, I started asking about colonoscopies. My dad is usually [...]

• health, works for me

  The Finer Things in Life: Air-Conditioning, Leather Seats in the Minivan, Pediatric Dentistry

  06.24.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  There are a few things in life that make me feel as privileged as Ivana Marie Zelníčková Syrovatka Trump Mazzucchelli Rubicondi. Things that make me grateful to live in this century, to have been born in a developed, prosperous country, and to have a husband who slaves daily to keep us in Mountain Dew and [...]

• health, recipes

  A Day Without French Fries

  06.12.08 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  My lovely sister, who is going through a divorce, is down to 107 pounds. That’s high school weight, or maybe junior high. While she wouldn’t recommend the Pull Out Your Still-Beating Heart And Allow Your Spouse Of Seven Years To Stomp On It diet, she is looking good. I think she’s too skinny now but [...]

• fight the frump, health, money

  Like trying a swimsuit on, only in front of your realtor and your mortgage broker

  06.05.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  You’ve probably heard that there’s a housing slump. But I’m not buying it. Unless by “slump” you mean that paying 229,000 for a screwy multi-level, 1600-square-foot house in an okay neighborhood is a steal. (Just nod, you New Yorkers; I know, life isn’t fair). Most of the time I feel really grateful for the money Dick [...]

• book review, health, motherhood

  The Book of Mom, redux

  05.12.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  It is very difficult for me to write this, but my conscience will not be silenced: I must admit that I have judged something unfairly. I have prematurely condemned it for being unoriginal and unenlightening. You know what doesn’t really bite? What actually has moments of soul-searching, and, as Sally (7) says, many scenes that [...]

• blogging, fight the frump, health, motherhood

  Frump of Mind

  04.24.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  The first time I heard someone express a desire to “stick my head in the oven,” I thought, what a sad, defeatist attitude. What good could possibly come of that, unless you had a gas oven? But now I get it: I’ve been depressed the past couple weeks. It’s a situational depression that will go [...]

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