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The Weekly Rant: Little White Lies and the Unvarnished Truth

09.29.2010

Did I miss the Weekly Rant last week? Sorry about that.  But I’m back, and this week I’m ranting about the white lies you tell relative strangers and the ones you shouldn’t tell your relatives. We all tell white lies. Of course we do. They are the grease that keeps the engine of social intercourse [...]

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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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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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Performing Failure Analysis on Our Parenting

05.17.2010

What’s done is done, and I definitely will not be throwing out my first set of kids as if they were the cussed-up first waffles that didn’t form correctly and now I can cook up a batch that comes out better.

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Writing About Your Parents

05.05.2010

So it’s Mother’s Day this Sunday.  I know that because all of my magazines are full of Mom stories.  Mostly, they wax eloquent with a slight hiccough: “I love[d] my mom BUT.”  Jamie Lee Curtis has another piece in More this month talking about her mother, Janet Leigh.  It’s not very good–as a piece of [...]

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Going Home–While You Still Can

02.01.2010

Time really does move faster when you’re older….I just blinked and 2009 had passed me by before I realized it…and 2010 is already moving just as fast!

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What Makes a Home?

12.06.2009

We never do leave home. Every house we’ve ever lived in has helped form us into who we are, has followed along with us every step of the way.

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Of Marriage, Life, Art and Loss

11.29.2009

Regardless of the causes, I am dealing with an enormous loss, and the agony of watching him erase himself. It is the antithesis of creating. It is chaos as well as inertia.

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Jane’s World-Famous Award-winning Best-Ever Pecan Pie

11.20.2009

Okay, gather ’round while I give you The Secret…

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Dialectic: Poetry, Philosophy, Collage

11.16.2009

The walls of human understanding have various purposes, textures, designs. But their intent is often to keep something…safe from challenge and on-going discovery of the truth of inherent polarity.

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