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The Four Quadrant Movie: Secretariat

10.06.2010

The hero is a stallion, the heroine is a housewife with four kids and the villain is a mouthy man who gets his comeupance. If that’s not a Four Quadrant movie, I don’t know what is.

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A Death in the Family

09.27.2010

…when it happened, her death came as a surprise and I was so unprepared in so many ways.

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Calling It Quits: the making of a movie

09.07.2010

I now had a character, that’s me. I had a premise, the search for happiness. And I had a character arc, unhappy to happy (or lets call a sense of well being). In short, I had my film. And I was off — with the enthusiasm of a kid.

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It’s Not PMS, It’s You! Interview with the author

08.27.2010

“…for every woman who ever pulled her hair out trying to explain–for the 46th time–the importance of putting the toilet seat down, for Christ’s sake, or that burping the national anthem after every meal is not a constitutional right…

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The Weekly Rant: Raley’s, BelAir, and NobHill markets

08.23.2010

Strip away all the hoohah, the pink and the blue, the booties and the pacifiers, and what you’ve got is a world in which women are valued for what their ovaries do and their wombs produce.

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Talking About Plastic Surgery–Still & Again

08.18.2010

…seeing the signs of aging gave me a bit of a start. You know it’s coming but you’re never quite ready when it does finally appear.

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The Weekly Rant: Target in the Bullseye, again

08.13.2010

Here’s what’s P-ing me O, frosting my hide, and generally adding to my disgruntlement this week. Target: Yes, again. I made a trip to Target in Elk Grove yesterday because I needed (a) knickers, and (b) Benadryl. Yes, despite the fact that just last week, I vowed never to darken Target’s door again, which followed [...]

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My Formerly Hot Life: First the Blog, Now the Book

08.11.2010

And I’m laughing, snorting even, in that not-so-subtle way that demands you ask me, “what’s so funny?”

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Diary of a Lost August: Movies, Politics, Target, and Whatever

08.06.2010

Since in this state (i.e., the state of being on painkillers), my brain is floating in the ether, if you’re looking for sense here, turn away.

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The Inner Life of a Blogger

07.26.2010

BlogHer’10 is coming up next week and while MidLifeBloggers will not be there, we thought it important to offer this treatise on the psychodynamics of blogging for all the attendees….

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