It’s amazing how, sometimes, things just fall into place. The last couple of months have been extremely stressful for D as he has worried about finding a job or two—any job—right out of college so he could continue living in the Wisconsin house with his friends until their lease ends on May 31. Things hit a fever pitch after Christmas because the time clock was ticking down to zero on his ability to stay in the house: we paid his rent through the end of January and he needed to either fish or cut bait. The uncertainty was troublesome, to say the least. He was applying for jobs both in…
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I’ve Got The Power
About ten years ago, all of the families that belong to our temple were asked to make an appointment for a portrait session in conjunction with the creation of a new directory. I thought it was a great idea: at the time, I think we had around 350 member families and a photo directory is a wonderful tool for learning the names of people with whom you aren’t already acquainted. We were also promised a free 8 X 10 portrait for coming in. The four of us went in one evening and posed for pictures, and that was that…until the pictures came back. I was horrified. Actually, horrified is a…
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Listen To Your Mother 2014: And We’re Off!
I have said it a thousand times, but always enjoy repeating it: co-producing Chicago’s LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER SHOW (with Tracey Becker, the Phoebe to my Monica!) for the past two years has been a life-altering experience in the best possible way. We are an awesome team and I truly can’t imagine working on the show with anyone else. We know how to have fun. Of course, we also know how to get down to business, even when we’re just acting like we’re working for the camera. (Pictures courtesy of Sabrina Persico, by the way.) All of our work sessions, whether they are on the phone, in person, or via…
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Odds and Ends
I just have a bunch of bits and pieces (odds and ends, whatever) that I wanted to get out there because I’ve been all over the place this week, so I decided to post a “Brain Dump” (as my sistuh-from-anuthuh-mutha calls it) today. This could also technically be a Friday Fragments post (as Mrs. 4444 has done for years every Friday), but I’m not linking up over there because I don’t have the time to go read the posts by all of the other participants and I don’t want to be unfair. (But YOU could! Go! Do it!) So anyway, here we go. Yesterday’s post, a note to the Zumba…
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Listen To Your Mother 2013 Videos are LIVE!
It feels like we’ve been waiting FOREVER for the 2013 LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER videos to be made public on YouTube, but it’s only been two months. In fact, with more than twice the amount of cities as last year, the videos were ready earlier this time, so it’s doubly exciting! I watched a couple of minutes of each of the Chicago videos (didn’t have time for the whole show today!) and was overwhelmed with pride all over again. By the way, the National Video Sponsor is The Partnership at Drugfree.org (thank you!), and all of us at LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER are proud to help share their message of…