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Category Archives: Things I love
Self-Love: Safe for Work Edition
I’m not going to keep blaming Hurricane Sandy for feeling off-kilter. At some point, I have to take responsibility for this unbalanced, stuffed-calendar, eating Teddy Grahams from the box, sniffing laundry to see if it’s clean, forgetting birthdays, honking at … Continue reading
Spring Cleaning: Temporary Tattoo Edition
Time to clear out some items that I’ve kept around because “I love it and I might just need it someday and it’s too good to throw out or recycle and I might just need it someday.” Or, in other … Continue reading
Posted in giveaway, People do silly things, Things I love
Tagged book lover, books, Facebook, giraffes, giveaway, hoarding, hustle, spring cleaning, tattly, temporary tattoos, vegan, vegbooks, vegetarian
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Love is Brewing in Montclair
I love coffee. If I had to choose between wine and coffee, it’d had to be coffee. If I had to choose between chocolate and coffee, it’d be a tougher decision, but I think I’d still choose coffee. And lucky … Continue reading
Posted in Excellent Local People, Review, Suburban Life, Things I love
Tagged Bellevue Avenue, Coffee, Coffee and Tea, Iced coffee, Java Love, Montclair, nj
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Glad I Saw Her: Sonia Sanchez at MADLOM
“Am I late?” I didn’t stand when she walked in. I felt like I ought to. My heart almost jumped out of my chest – but I didn’t stand when she walked in. Instead, close to an hour after we … Continue reading
Posted in event, Glad I Saw It, random observation, Review, Things I love, yeah write
Tagged Chinua Achebe, jazz, MADLOM, Middle Passage, Montclair, Odean Pope, Pheeroan akLaff, poetry, Reggie Workman, Sonia Sanchez
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The Parenting Fail that Wasn’t
My son lost his third tooth the other day. For what seems like forever (about a month), his two front teeth have been creating a more and more obtuse angle, coming forward a little more each day to buckteeth proportions. … Continue reading
Posted in Parenthood, Things I love
Tagged Kindergarten, losing teeth, parenting fail, Tooth Fairy
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Glad I Saw It: Trunk
This gorgeous tree is in the front yard of a home on a leafy, tree-lined street. The first time I visited the home, I was in such a rush that I didn’t even notice this pillar of strength planted in … Continue reading
Posted in Glad I Saw It, random observation, Suburban Life, Things I love
Tagged Magnolia, Tree, tree trunk
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Catch February’s Art Exhibit at the Montclair Public Library
Libraries would be divine even if all they did was house books for posterity. But then they also let us take those books (and DVDs and audio books) home, use them for FREE, and then bring them back so we … Continue reading
Posted in People are Good, random observation, Things I love
Tagged art, books, Chai, jazz, Montclair, Montclair Public Library, Terra at the Isabel Rose
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Pride & Prejudice: Celebrate Its 200th Anniversary On Paper
Some people think it’s snarky and hip and smart to disparage Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Some people are silly. But I’m not going to swoon over Mr. Darcy or applaud the spunk of Lizzie or stick up for Charlotte’s … Continue reading
Still Time to Be a Reader Recruiter for World Book Night
I love giving books to people. They are a go-to for birthday gifts, a way to share something you learned with someone else (hand-written notes and all), companions in good times and bad, escapes from the humdrum or hustle of … Continue reading
