February 2012
Thanks
Thank you for all the kind things you have been sending to our little corner of Chicago, it is greatly appreciated, more than you know.
I keep writing emails and not sending them, because words are stalled, except on twitter where no cab driver is safe from my wrath.
But all the stalled words are thank you, we appreciate you, I can’t make the meeting on the 13th, it is actually 5134...
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Happy Meal
We picked her up from school, she was light and happy and silly, like always. In the car from the backseat, she falls apart. She wants a Happy Meal, and we say no. She starts crying and can’t seem to stop.
Head down, out of the car, she gets upset that her father has to go get gas, so she and I go upstairs alone. Inside, she drops her bag and slumps onto the couch in a pile, sobbing.
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Why Yams are easier: Lessons from The Trobriand...
I took an Anthropology class in College, I think I was a freshman, so more than 20 years ago, and the only thing I remember about the class was the Trobriand Islanders and yams. Yams were exchanged in the culture for what seemed like every occasion. There was a chapter or a lecture or a daydream I had once after a particularly carb filled lunch at Lyman Hall that explained that when someone died,...
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Your "Like" On my post about running the Marathon...
Because I decided to register again for this thing and I didn’t talk to you about it beforehand because I was scared you would not be excited about it, because you know it is kind of a pain in the ass for you, as the person married to me.
So your “Like” on my posts about running the Marathon again this year is understood by me as your way of saying it is OK and you aren’t...
In the event that you are interested, I have...
If you would like to Run Blue with The Internet in Chicago - we now have a team.
See what I did there - if that link doesn’t work - someone tell me.
REFER is the code to waive the 25 bucks to join the team.
All Internet who are running Chicago and would like to run DetermiNation are welcome! There is a tent, where we can all meet morning of - with private gear check, beer, breakfast...
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What if...
Great ideas begin with a silent moment broken by the simple phrase “what if…” followed by a room full of people anxiously waiting to hear what comes next and interested in figuring out how to make it happen.
What if….
The legacy of being game to consider the new, that is what I want to teach, that is the lesson I want to give this organization.
Take it from here...
I tell Seven that last night I dreamed her father and I were accidentally locked in a lion enclosure at the zoo with our cat who promptly threw up.
This was 20 minutes ago.
She took it from that point and has rambled on an elaborate adventure of what should happen next, that included time travel, llamas and science fair projects that just culminated in a dance number wherein the cat...
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Do you ever feel like you are an asshole?
And like you try really hard not to be an asshole, keeping the lid on your assholery as much as possible because of all the external messages you get from those around you when you let your personality roam free, free as a bird that not-so-much you? You know when sometimes you accidentally forget to not be yourself, and the you say things, and then you are an asshole and then you just have to...
#JoyforJulie
frageelay:
When I read of Julie’s news about the cancer overstaying its welcome this morning, I had myself a good cry. I got mad. I prayed. And then I thought about this incredible community here and how much we all adore Julie. We may not hold a magical cure for cancer in our hands, but we can direct a laser beam of joy and happiness and love her way, and I absolutely believe to the very core...
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January 2012
“Every month, Ladies lay an egg, and if it doesn’t turn into a baby, they...”
– Things Seven said yesterday.
You know when you get in your car and it smells...
That.
I have spent the last 3 days at Northwestern...
All of the math stuff and then some not math stuff and then some awkward stuff.
Anyway, if anyone needs me, I am over in the corner with the Statement of Activities and the Cash Flow Rate.
The end.
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He tends to go with The Who when I would have gone...
And he continues to deny the greatness of Actung Baby to the sound that was 1991, in favor of Soundgarden, even after he already played Nirvana which ably represented the soggy SubPop Revolution, all while wearing Fly sunglasses, but other than that Seven’s musical education is coming along nicely.
All involved, (with the exception of the cat, who is freaked out) consider Family Dance...
The cashier insisted I give her my name, so I told...
Then I have her an address of a house I lived in 20 years ago that no longer exists and a mash up phone number because my contact information isn’t relevant to my yarn purchase.
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"The front of are house."
I looked at the sentence and thought - what is an “are” house? Did she me art? Was I missing something hipster? Was I out of the loop? Or had my 27 year old sister decided that this photo caption on Facebook was her opportunity to showcase her education.
The grammar bothered me.
Normally I would roll my eyes and move on, but then I looked closer, and it was a house I had never...
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It is ok, self, you don't need to make another...
Even though the cat woke you up at 2:30, 3:00 and 3:45 AM with her nonsense last night, you don’t need to over caffeinate yourself into heart palpitations.
Drink some water.
Wait for the temperatures to rise.
Go outside for a run.
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"The time is always right to do what is right." -...
I stood in the chapel, the lights off, except one in the back directly over the card table set up with glue, glitter, cards, a game set, construction paper and other supplies I knew had been carefully counted, boxed up and delivered earlier that week. I knew there were fruit snacks somewhere nearby that Seven had pulled off a shelf at Target and I had delivered to a warehouse on the West Side.
I...
