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Rest In Peace Irena Sendler
Filed in Musings, May 12, 2008, 1:27 pmBack some time ago I saw the story of Irena Sendler on The Today Show. Her story touched me so much that I wrote her name on my kitchen white board, fully intending on looking her up when I got a chance. Months went by but her name remained until one day last month I [...]
Message to Kwame Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty
Filed in Musings, March 24, 2008, 12:44 pmText message to: K. Kilpatrick & C. Beatty
Sup? Sux u chrgd wit lyng. 12 cnts?!!!! dam! u in trbl dudes!!!
I thought I’d begin with a language of communication you both understand because it seems large words such as you’d find in an oath of office or truth might not be within your ability to comprehend [...]
Things I’m thinking about
Filed in Musings, March 10, 2008, 11:00 pmMy mind, not surprisingly, is rather full of squirly energy lately and there’s so much swimming around in there I thought I’d share with y’all (like that bit of Southern flavor?). What do you say? Are you up to it? Aww, come on; don’t be a chicken.
The house I was hoping wouldn’t rent before we [...]
My heart is broken
Filed in Musings, February 24, 2008, 9:12 pmPolaroid film is the newest casualty in the digital takeover and the news has made me sad. No more wonderfully skewed color or blurry, soft images to either transfer to watercolor paper or to cherish as is. Nothing, including any Photoshop manipulation, will ever replace or replicate the Polaroid flavor some of us have come [...]
Help find Kyle Fleischmann
Filed in Musings, November 16, 2007, 8:45 amA few minutes back I was watching The Today Show and Meredith Vieira was outside speaking to the crowd gathered outside. I’m not sure who was speaking to her since Iz was crying and begging for candy at 8:40 in the morning, but they had a banner with helpfindkyle.com and what little I heard it [...]
Note to self: be more vain
Filed in Musings, September 27, 2007, 10:39 pmYou know how your mother tells you to always have on clean underwear in case you get run over? Or how about the rule that says the minute you go out looking your absolute worst is when you see your husband’s high school sweetheart or that girl you hated in AP English your senior year? [...]
Oak Park girl abducted by man
Filed in Musings, July 1, 2007, 10:54 am Oak Park girl abducted by man
Found unharmed on city’s northwest side
By BILL DWYER
A six-year-old Oak Park girl who had been the subject of an intense search by Oak Park police and Cook County K-9 units after disappearing from her back yard Saturday was found alone and unharmed on the city’s northwest side Saturday afternoon. [...]
Richard Gere wanted in India
Filed in Musings, April 26, 2007, 3:48 pmYou won’t be seeing Richard Gere in any Bollywood movies anytime soon since a warrant has been issued for his arrest in India. It seems Gere was seen kissing Bollywood actress and UK Celebrity Big Brother winner, Shilpa Shetty, on the cheek in what was there considered an obscene kiss at an AIDS awareness event [...]
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