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ESL Conversation Questions Topic: Children Highlights: The topic is parenting and children, so we speak with the expert, know-it-all obnoxiousness that only people without children can have. Don’t worry, the universe will laugh last. Also, in the beginning, I boss The Man out of eating cookies. Later, while I launch into a particularly lengthy know-it-all [...]

 

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A coworker was working on a mixed CD (why doesn’t this ever sound as cool and natural as “mixed tape”?) asked what I thought the top three country songs of all time were. Reflexively I answered:  (I think these sort of top whatever cultural things should be given as little thought as possible because aren’t [...]

2.11.09 2.12.09 Oh, I love a parade. Really, I do. Even ones as niche as the annual Georgia Day Parade that marches right up to the foot of my work building every year. It’s mostly school children dressed as settlers and natives, circa Oglethorpe’s landing in 1733. But it’s still a parade. Some grown-ups dress [...]

Ignoring the sharp criticism of the two biggest Nursing Buddha fans (my husband! my mother!), I’ve decided it’s just too easy and peachy to update in a big chunk of photos in one entry, rather than slave over millions of wordless, single picture entries. This week of photos begins with the grand finale of my [...]

This is absolutely cheating, I know, but I had to show proof I am still taking pictures, though inconsistently and lazily. The Man is still in Chicago and it’s throwing off my whole balance. He’s the one who is best at reminding me to take the pictures and the one most easily delighted by the [...]