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A Very Special Episode
Ok I'm not really this old. I’ve been an avid TV fan since Frasier had hair and you had to stand up to change the channel. My parents and I would gather around the television with our TV trays and...
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The Way the Music Died
She’s happily listening to “American Girl.” And none of us ever will again.Photo credits: Pyxurz I’ve always had an inexplicable aversion to Chianti. If someone were to just fill up my glass without my...
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Don’t Know Much About History
History Book I was inspired to get after watching Last of the Mohicans and not knowing who the bad guys were. I just returned from a long weekend in the Chicago suburbs to celebrate my cousin’s high...
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How to Seem Super Smart
In sixth grade, I won the class spelling bee because my esteemed rival tossed a “c” at the beginning of the word “kindergarten.” My victory proved once and for all that I was the smartest kid in the...
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Modern Tourism
Visiting Paul Revere’s house in Boston When I was a kid, my parents took me on a week-long road trip from Chicago to Boston. It was disguised as a learning experience, but I’m pretty sure my dad just...
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The Name Game
The other day I came across an experience I knew I might have only once in a lifetime – I ran into someone under the age of 20 named Tiffany. All of us 80s babies know that we have...
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How Do I Friend Thee? Let Me Count the Ways…
In second grade, our class had a new student named Brooke. Brooke had just moved into our little Midwestern suburb from a magical faraway land called Texas. Instantly, she was a shiny new object that...
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Social Media Could’ve Saved…
The election is finally over and I’ve already cast my vote for the winner of this season’s The Bachelor, so I figured all my major decisions were behind me for a while. Hasbro, however, has decided to...
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Better Never Than Early
I recently discovered this pretty nifty little device called an iPhone – it’s kind of like an iPod but you can make calls on it and apparently it’s all the rage. I decided I should probably buy one and...
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Operation… and Other Games that Make Us Better
I love pasta. It’s a deep love, a passionate love, a two syllable lo-ove. And sometimes you do crazy things for love. So the other night when I was making a little rotini and one fell...
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Popcorn and Pinot
People love to talk about movies – the talent, the writing, the singing skills of what’s-her-name. They will tweet it, blog it, and small-talk it over drinks. But ask someone to tell you their favorite...
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