Scenes from Home
My family has a membership to the YMCA in Chicago, which I frequent when I'm home. Our YMCA is one of the last left in Chicago that actually fulfills its original purpose as a "Young Men's Christian...
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Thanks, Paul Desmond...
...and Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, etc., etc.I cannot do work in silence, but conversely I am distracted by background noise. Also, when I...
View ArticleMusic & Lyrics
No, not the 2007 Drew Barrymore/ Hugh Grant film, thank god.Just in general- my last post was about wordless music, but this one is to give credit to what I feel must be a very difficult task- writing...
View ArticleToo much to laugh about
Some days I really hate my job. Some days I come so close to exploding because of something a thirteen year old does or says that it's a wonder I'm still in one peice. Some days I want to scream and...
View ArticleAnti-Valentine's Day 2010
What is Valentine's Day anyways? Upon investigation, I couldn't really find any reason for why we celebrate it the way we do. There were several saints named Valentine who were martyred, but none of...
View ArticleReal Estate
(The band)Lyrics to "Beach Comber:"What you want is just outside your reachYou keep on searchin’You’re walking down that Pensacola beachYou keep repeatin’While you’re waiting for that soundApparatus to...
View ArticleTHE LONG RUN
According to Hal Higdon, in his MARATHON: The Ultimate Training Guide, a “long run” is any run that is over 10 miles. Runners should take special precautions before these runs like eating the right...
View ArticleGood ways to not pick up women:
I am absolutely incapable of meeting guys at bars. I honestly have no idea how people do it. Sometimes I think it's my own fault, but then there are the times when I make an attempt and it turns out so...
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It's kite flyin time
This man was trying (and failing) to fly a kite in the alley behind Cecil P. Whitaker's at 6pm last night. Though the image of a kite failing to take flight is often associated with gloom and doom,...
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4th Time Around
When she said,“Don’t waste your words, they’re just lies,”I cried she was deaf.And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes,Then said, “What else you got left?”It was then that I got up to leaveBut...
View ArticleThe Times They Are a-Changin'
Today I am two days shy of running a marathon with hip bursitis (http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00409), which basically means I can still run, but I will be in pain the whole time. Also, I...
View ArticleNo I can't :: Yes you did
The body is a beautiful, miraculous thing.The mind is stronger.
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Then & Now
My brother and I, Halloween 1992.My brother and I, Halloween 2008.My, we have grown (though I might be wearing the same lipstick)!
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I need this coffee creamer
Sunday Brunch is definitely a top five on the list of things St. Louis does right. Today I sat outside of Scape in the Central West End and enjoyed a perfect Spinach and Feta omelet.The ability to make...
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STOLEN GOODS!
This is a picture from my friend Leigh's blog, which she took during a recent trip to Rome. However it is incredible and I had to share. I lived in Rome for a while, and at first the graffiti all over...
View ArticleLa-de-da, La-de-da...
What is it about spring that just makes you wanna...dance?For the last few weekends I have had one single aspiration: to find myself in the middle of a pulsating throng of people and to lose my mind...
View ArticleThe Final Countdown
5 days of teaching left in my first year of being an 8th grade Science Teacher at Compton-Drew Elementary; a middle school in St. Louis, MO.I find it hard to imagine saying goodbye to a lot of my...
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SATC2
For years I have defended one of my favorite shows, Sex and the City, from many, many people who said it was garbage. These critics said it was shallow, unbelievable, immoral, etc. etc. But I stood by...
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Simple Twist of Fate
(See title) My favorite Bob Dylan song, decidedly.I heard it performed by a very old couple with just a guitar and a ukulele at Fred's Six Feet Under tonight (behind Iron Barley in South City- every...
View ArticleThe Turtle
I’ve spent most summers of my life at my family’s little cottage in Door County, Wisconsin. When I was fourteen, my mother put our turtle, Yoldla, outside for some fresh air on a hot day, and she died...
View ArticleIf only- # 357
If only... I had stuck with playing the piano.I started playing piano at the age of four- no lie. My parents began training my brother and I with the Suzuki method, whoch focuses more on learning the...
View ArticleSomething old = something new
I haven't written anything in a while. I've really tried, but nothing significant has come of my efforts. So instead of writing something lame and fatigue-induced, I decided to revisit some of my old...
View ArticleQ & A
Phoenix: "Ms. Kennelly, if you were a millionaire, would you still be a teacher?"Me: "Yes."Scary thing is, I actually meant it. No sooner had the question left that little boy's mouth than that...
View ArticleThe Dog Days Are Over
From my favorite song of the past year:“Happiness hit her, like a train on a track. Coming towards her, stuck still, no turning back.She hid around corners, and she hid under beds,she killed it with...
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