Monthly Archives: August 2011

I’m Not Your Pimp (What’s in a Word?)

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

Remember a world where African-Americans were depicted with ape like characteristic in cartoons and everyone laughed and it was OK because, after all, it’s a joke and it’s funny and African Americans didn’t really mind/matter?  I know I remember a world … Continue reading →

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Into the Sunset

Posted on August 20, 2011 by

Bright and early this morning my movers arrived. 28 ft truck filling up all my belongings (most which haven’t been unpacked since my move out of NYC over a year ago). What a major major relief to locate a moving … Continue reading →

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What Life Used to Look Like

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

I was ‘flipping’ through my photo albums on Facebook (oh, Facebook… where all my memories are held) and I came across this shot. It was taken on the back of my bike by a friend of mine who was visiting from the … Continue reading →

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A Legacy of Love

Posted on August 10, 2011 by

The Skype ring went off, the little notification ‘Jackie Whiffen calling’ blinking on my screen. Smiling, I settled on the edge of my bed and clicked ‘answer’. The picture came into focus and sitting on the couch, three in a … Continue reading →

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Yee-haw.

Posted on August 1, 2011 by

I am back to packing again. Story of my life for the past year and a half but what adventures I have had. And now I am on to another. I was sitting on the LIRR (as I have so … Continue reading →

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