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AndFarAway Joins the New Decade, Ten Years Too Late
No, seriously. Look! AndFarAway has a new design! This is a huge deal because the last time AndFarAway got a facelift was in 2006. That’s TEN WHOLE FREAKIN’ YEARS AGO, before smartphones were around,...
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Celebrating My Mother
We usually think of our mothers in the context of how wonderful they are to us. They made us who we are. We could have never been ourselves without them. They are the most loving creatures on earth....
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Happiness 101: “Let reality be reality”
Little pockets of wise insightfullness are not usually found in publications like The Guardian. Until they are, that is. Here’s a lovely little piece on accepting things for what they are. Often, it’s...
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I Successfully Ate Half a Smoked Turkey Sandwich
Okay, so turkey. I have been exercising regularly for almost three months. I’ve never been much of an exercise person, so it’s actually a big deal for me. Being a child of the super-trackable,...
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How to Fall in Love with Turkey Sandwiches
At the ripe old age of 30, I had my first turkey sandwich. It was late at night. I was starving. There was a ready-made turkey sandwich in the fridge, and allergies be damned. Amazingly, nothing...
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The Cookie Carnival
You know those moments when you’re just going on with your day and then a memory — no, a memory of a feeling — hits you completely out of the blue. The sweetness of a gingerbread man on TV, a cupcake...
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Chlorine-soaked book pages
It was always one of my favorite things in the world. A book covering my face while lounging under the hot, hot sun. My nose buried in pages that smell like chlorine and salt water, dog eared,...
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Ophelia
Yesterday we watched “Hamlet”, a performance at the Odeon amphitheater by English troupe London Globe. The performance brought to my mind one of the first paintings I ever loved, which was of Ophelia....
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This was my first bite of chicken in life
Previously: Being Allergic to Chicken Discovering that my Chicken Allergy is Gone — If you’ve never had chicken before in your life, what would you choose to try for your very first time? My choice, a...
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Second and third experience with chicken… good and not so good
Previously: Being Allergic to Chicken Discovering that my Chicken Allergy is Gone This Was the First Bite of Chicken in My Life — Experience #2 – the good: I’ve never really liked shawerma, and never...
View ArticleHow I Quit Smoking Cigarettes… And How You Can, Too
They tell you that smoking is really addictive: once you start, you can’t stop. It’s true, but it’s not the whole story. It doesn’t cover just how addictive smoking is. It doesn’t tell you about the...
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Chicken Nuggets
Previously: Being Allergic to Chicken Discovering that my Chicken Allergy is Gone This Was the First Bite of Chicken in My Life Second and Third Experiences: Good and Not So Good Genius Marketing from...
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The Year of the Pandemic
March 2020. The first pandemic pictures on my phone attempting to document the pandemic are of the closed restaurants and bars. The empty trams. It was so strange seeing lively, touristic Amsterdam...
View ArticleChicken… Here I come
I’m thirty. I’ve never had chicken in my life, because I’ve been allergic since before I can even remember. But allergies — especially those developed when really young — are supposed to fade with age,...
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