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    I can’t be your life lesson.

      Me, window gazing in May 2008.       Spoke with my dad briefly on the phone yesterday. I called to say “Happy Anniversary”. It’s been fourteen years since he married…

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    It’s that time of year again…

    At High Hill Farms in Virginia.   Just a week after K and I married, we took my nephews, Justin and Nate trick-or-treating. This was a rather new experience for both K…

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    Obliviously linked in.

    Wall Street Journal     I’m not surprised by this story, but am still appalled. From The Wall Street Journal:   In late September, on a crowded commuter train in San Francisco,…

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    Somewhereinamerica

        We got back to Dirty Jerz at some unGodly hour on Saturday morning. Safe and sound.   Friday was crazy. My feelings of dread on Thursday turned out to be…

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    Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.

    Today’s song- which played on the Adult Rock station that K has uncharacteristically (oddly?) been listening to while we’ve been in Chicago- is The Beatles’ classic, “Yesterday””. It’s fitting my mood to…

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    On the fifth.

        Happy Fifth Anniversary to you, my amazing husband.   You are a wonderful provider, earnest, hard working, and a loving father to Z, your female doppleganger.   This hasn’t been…

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    Kiss the sky.

      This afternoon, I met with Dr. Burt of Northwestern Memorial Hospital. I was so nervous my heart started racing. In recounting my medical history, I wound up in tears. Not out…

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    “And what I loved most, she had so much soul”

        (Cynical) Note from Alisha: I just spent an hour working on this post which detailed my trip to Chicago, where I am currently to undergo medical tests. I then went…

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    Yeezus!

        Lord, have mercy.   Rapper Kanye West, fresh off of squashing beef with late night talk show hosts and fights with paps, caused quite a stir over the weekend when…

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    Some Saturday Stuff- October 19th.

    The world’s best hot chocolate, at The Chocolate Bar, Winchester, Virginia.     So I’m back home after a fabulous AND busy week down in Virginia with the BFF. I’ve now gone…