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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Little Emma Charlotte is born
I think it was Melanie Wilkes who said it best, in Gone With the Wind. “Oh, I think the days that babies come are just the happiest days!” or something like that.
Melanie could be pretty sugary-sweet sometimes, but she nailed that one all right: it is the best day when a baby comes–especially if it’s [...]
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Sunday, March 28th, 2010
This Too Shall Pass
I was going to write about spring and how it came early this year, and how it’s still only March yet the forsythia is in bright bloom, and the daffodils are up and waving in the sunshine.
Except as soon as I had formulated all these thoughts, winter decided to take one last swipe at [...]
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
Words at Play writing workshop—on TV!
I went yesterday to Channel 8 once again, and got to talk about writing workshops with Desiree Fontaine, who is the most fun person to be interviewed by. She gets excited about everything. I think you could talk to her about the alphabet and she would make you feel as though you were piles of [...]
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
I think I may be an app, as in “There’s an app for that”
I go along mostly feeling as though I’m pretty much keeping up with modern life. Or at least make a passable pretense of it.
After all, I have tweeted. I have visited tumblr. I can (usually) upload and download photos. Recently I’ve learned to work not only my television set but also the DVD player and [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in What Comes After Crazy,apps,bloglily,books,iPhone,inanimate objects,technology by sandi
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Here’s the you-tube video of me on Connecticut Style
My favorite part is at the end, when I thought that camera was off—and I’m doing a high-five with the host, Desiree Fontaine, and I say triumphantly, “I didn’t cough!” It’s because I had the world’s worst cough, and I was quite sure that at some point in the interview, she would ask me a [...]
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Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Me and Desiree talk about love and kissing games on TV
Okay, so my hair was in my eyes, and I tended to flap my arms around a bit when I got excited…but at least today I could watch this all the way through without screaming or hiding my eyes.
I’ve spent this week trying to figure out how to embed this video into my website, [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in books,television,video by sandi
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Twenty-ten or two thousand ten?
It’s time, people, for us to make a big decision. What in the heck is the name of this year we’re in?
How long are we going to go on referring to our year by its formal name, “two thousand ten”? After all, way back in the last century, I bet you never heard anybody say [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in momentous events by sandi
Monday, January 4th, 2010
I’m on TV and on the radio this week!
I barely have time to type today because I’m busy thinking away away ten pounds. It’s clear that somehow along the way through forty pounds of Christmas cookies, I forgot to get in shape—and now it turns out that tomorrow morning I am going to be taped on a television show. Yes, that’s right. Channel [...]
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
It’s January—do you know where your chakras are?
I don’t usually make New Year’s resolutions because—well, frankly I don’t feel as though January is the true beginning of the year. It has always seemed to me that September is really the time to get organized, rearrange your drawers, get your hair cut, balance your checking account, and start planning for the future.
But [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in getting older,self-improvement,video by sandi
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Everybody’s favorite holiday
I don’t know anybody who doesn’t love Thanksgiving.
Oh sure, everybody admits it’s a lot of work, and often it’s a strain getting a bunch of people who are all related to each other to be under the same roof without, you know, things being said. But all in all, pound for pound, you will [...]
