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Is Decluttering the same as Saying Goodbye?

Posted in Aging, Family, Kids, Neurosis, Parenting, tagged , , , on August 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Not too long ago, I went on a cleaning binge.  One of the things I threw out was a poster-sized blow up of a picture of me from my wedding.  My husband had blown up pictures from several different stages of my life to decorate the room in which he threw me a surprise 40th [...]

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Busy Doing Nothing

Posted in Dogs, Family, Laughs, Neurosis, Parenting, pets, Rants, Working Mom, tagged , , , on April 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »

At the end of every day, I feel like I have done nothing. Oh I’ve been busy all right. But doing what? So one day last week, I decided to keep track of my day — how could I have been so busy during all those hours when the kids were at school and have [...]

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Who's Afraid of the Water Park? Me, that's who.

Posted in Family, Humor, Neurosis, Parenting, Weight on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have trekked through the rain forests of Costa Rica.  I have biked 18 miles up-hill to the top of  Mount Constitution in Washington State. I have traveled through Turkey – by myself – with blond hair.  But the ideaof going to Splish Splash Water Park terrifies me. It’s not the possibility of drowning *though [...]

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Ageless Body? Yeah, right.

Posted in Aging, Beauty, Husbands, Laughs, Neurosis, Weight on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Long ago, I discovered the secret to buying (passably) flattering bathing suits: the worse you look the more you pay. (Hence, the Karla Coletto bazillion dollar(and worth every penny) bathing suit.)  I then learned the secret to feeling young and attractive: hang out with the septaugenarians.  I’ve bemoaned the new fahion-math: in Hollywood, size six [...]

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I'm packin' up!

Posted in Family, Neurosis, Travel, tagged , , on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Oy. For those of you who have never seen a Woody Allen Movie, gone to hear Barbra Streisand perform, or had grandparents who remind you of Billy Crystal when he does his old man schtick, “oy” is “oh boy” with a Jewish accent. It pretty much describe the way I feel right now. There are [...]

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NYC Moms Blog Post: My Daughter Thinks She's Fat and It's all my Fault

Posted in Aging, Beauty, Family, Kids, Neurosis, Parenting, Uncategorized, Weight, tagged , , , on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Swimsuit season is upon us.  And with it the onslaught of diet ads on tv, magazines with pics of celebs caught having actual cellulite, and me, bemoaning my post-partum, post-forty, past passing for anything but middle-aged body. Though I am, if I am completely, intellectually honest, neither truly fat, or particularly unattractive, I have made [...]

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Weight Watchers Weigh In Update #1

Posted in Beauty, Diet, Exercise, Fashion, Food, Laughs, Neurosis, Weight, tagged , , , , on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Weight Watchers. The two most terrifying words in the English language.  (Though I suppose that “Compassionate Conservative” and “Hairy Back” might be contenders.) And yet here I am, once again, doing the WW.  Counting the points, weighing the portions,trying to decide if a deck of cards (the proper size of a serving a meat) is [...]

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I'll Never be an Olympian

Posted in Aging, Neurosis, Weight, tagged , on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Olympics start today. Actually, they’ve started already. (Just not on primetime, so not at all. If the Opening Ceremonies happen, and the networks don’t put it on TV, did they really occur?) Something about seeing all those young people from all over the world — well, dorky as it sounds – it always gives [...]

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My XL Problem with Suburban Sprawl

Posted in Exercise, Laughs, Neurosis, Shopping, tagged , , , on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Everyone is so concerned with Suburban Sprawl — the rape of the countryside, the never-ending expansion of the suburbs. I’m concerned with my own suburban sprawl. The one I’m sitting on right now as I type this post. See, I’m spending my summer in “the country,” as we city folk like to say, and instead [...]

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Looking Good at Any Price

Posted in Exercise, Fashion, Food, Kids, Marriage, Neurosis, Parenting, Skin Care, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on June 5, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Have you ever noticed that the worse your body is, the more you have to spend on a bathing suit? I’ve been to the Lands End site with all of it’s symbols about body type and claims of flattery. And I’ve always liked the suits. Not too flashy. Not too revealing. But in the end, [...]

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