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Documentary Review/ Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
New and different enough to fascinate me even though I’m pretty neutral on Michael J. Fox. I was in eighth grade and my family was going through our big People Magazine phase when Michael J. Fox went public with his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, so I was already familiar with his story. Twenty-five years of disease…
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Eat Your Breakfast
I went to the gym this morning intending to pound out thirty intense minutes on the stair stepper. Instead I came off the machine feeling weak and tired at the twenty minute mark. I forgot to eat breakfast. Well, I didn’t forget (I’m not the type of person who forgets to eat), but I often…
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The Red Disk
In the summer of 1994 I was ten years old and living in a small town in Eastern Washington. We had a babysitter that summer and her car had a small hole in the floor, just big enough so you could see the street moving under your feet. My sister and I always fought over…
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Documentary Review/ P!nk: All I Know So Far
I usually enjoy a good behind-the-scenes tour of a celebrity’s life, but this one just stressed me out. This documentary follows Pink and her family during the European leg of her tour. Pink has chosen to bring her husband, her two-year-old son, and eight-year-old daughter with her and they are together all the time. When…
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Roller Skating
My kids’ school hosts a roller skating program in gym class for grades 1-5 for three weeks every spring. It’s a much-anticipated annual activity. Except it hasn’t been an annual activity recently, or at least not for us. School shut down due to covid-19 in early March 2020 when my oldest was in first grade.…
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WKC
I attended the Westminster Kennel Club show once. This was back when I lived in New York City and the show was held on weekdays in February at Madison Square Garden. I took a day off work and spent a lovely series of hours immersed in dog show culture. My favorite part was wandering around…
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People Who Love Exercise
I really don’t enjoy exercising and I never have. I do it regularly, or at least I try to, because otherwise I feel awful and have no energy. But I have often wondered what is wrong with me that I struggle so much to find motivation to exercise. When does it get easier? All these…
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Partial List of Thoughts at 4:45 AM
*Note that the question is not do I love my kids enough but rather am I showing them enough love. I am not at all effusive and never have been so it’s an ongoing project for me to intentionally demonstrate my love to my children.