Blue (State) Hawaii
January 06, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
My kids—who behave as if they are political veterans after we dragged them up to N.H. three years ago to hold signs for Kerry—have both commented separately in the last week on how quiet I’m being about the election this time around.
It’s true, I’m pretty sanquine. Or maybe it’s just cynicism:...
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December Red #2
December 31, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages
I know what you’re thinking: this entry has nothing whatsoever to do with The 50th State, she’s just here to brag about the perfect little Christmas present she got from her way-cool husband.
And it’s true, it’s hard for me not to be a bit puffed up with pride, and I understand completely if...
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Listmania!
December 10, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
1). Like every other publication this time of year, the New York Times is full of lists (stories, as T and I like to say, that write themselves, leaving busy reporters free to shop and cook and decorate like the rest of us).
I have to confess, my heart was in my mouth when I saw The 53 Places...
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Asshead in Alaska
November 27, 2007
Filed in: Alaska, The Middle Ages
Do you have a wild and crazy friend from college? Someone who was way, way naughtier than you were (however bad that may or may not have been)? Someone with or from whom you were almost infected, arrested, addicted, ejected, indicted or all of the above?
Me too. Aren’t they great? For me, those...
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Monkey in the middle
November 18, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
Know how sometimes you’re blinded to your own bad habits until you see them reflected in someone else?
How, say, you’ll be driving somewhere with your teenaged son sitting next to you chewing up the inside of his cheek till it bleeds, and you’ll go, oh God, I know where he got that from? Or at...
