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November 2007 - Posts
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When I was a little girl, I took ballet lessons at the Donnie Jo Biddle School of Ballet in downtown Elmhurst. Donnie Jo was always irritated with me because I could never get 'Left' and 'Right' straight, until finally my mother came up with the brillant Read More...
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Having a six-year-old boy means that I get to watch all the Star Wars movies. Again. And again. And again. Yes, I am a Star Wars nerd. Not nerdy enough to attend a Star Wars convention wearing a Princess Leia gown, my hair tied up in brown buns on the Read More...
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Last Thursday evening, Daniel and I were guests at a special dinner for a visiting troupe of Ethiopian dancers, Mesgana . Sponsored by the Illinois Ethiopian Kids Community and COEEF (Children of Ethiopia Education Fund) program, this group of 11 dancers Read More...
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One of our amazing late-summer discoveries was The Boring Store . Yes, it really is a store, on Milwaukee Ave. (near Ashland), and it really is called The Boring Store. When I received an email regarding *free* writing workshops for children, I signed Read More...
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At my Catholic high school ( Nazareth Academy , in LaGrange ), volunteerism was drilled into our heads. We were required to complete a certain amount of hours as a volunteer in order to graduate, and thus summer, spring, winter breaks and weekends found Read More...
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For just about forever, I've been dying to get to India. It's on my long list of Places I Want to Visit Before I Die, right after Brazil and West Africa. For now, the closest I come to India is Devon Avenue in Chicago. We get there so often that Daniel Read More...
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Once upon a time in Rome, I lived with a very bizarre old lady who smoked a lot of marijuana - Ms. Fofi - a very handsome (wait...gorgeous) French model, Julian, and a sweet girl from Amsterdam , Clauzina, in a little apartment ABOVE A CHEESE SHOP on Read More...
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Red Velvet Cupcakes with butter-cream-cheese frosting, two cartons of milk, my son sitting across from me licking the sprinkled, bright blue frosting off his chocolate cupcake and chatting to me about his day at school at Sweet Mandy B's . Life is good. Read More...
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