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It was raining the night I first kissed my husband. The wind was hissing and howling through the bare branches of the trees, rattling the last of the dead leaves still clinging to their posts. Before we kissed, we twined our hands together [...]
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I love House, not just because it's a clever, funny show, but because it does such a fabulous job of capturing some of the intimacy problems related to addiction. Regardless of the substance, addiction causes general problems in relationships, as active addicts shut the world [...]
Will Smith's Hancocktells us we deserve better.
Mark and I went out to see Hancock last night. We were really looking forward to this one: July 4th weekend opening, Will Smith, superhero antics and alcoholism. It was slated to have everything!
And the first half of the movie delivered on its blockbuster promises. Will [...]
Whew! Summer has its plusses and minuses. Among the plusses: Summer movie season. Among the minuses: Kids out of school means no time to blog about summer movie season.
This past weekend, Mark and I left our kids in the care of our wonderful babysitter, who, next to The Junky's Wife is the love of [...]
It's my favorite time of year: summer movie season! My husband and I love few things more than a summer blockbuster. This year, to ensure that we didn't miss a spectacular moment and yet had a smooth decision making process, we each gave numerical ratings to the hottest upcoming movies and tallied up [...]
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Yesterday, my daughter found a dollar on the sidewalk near our house while she was out walking with my husband. She came bounding up to me and said, "Look, Daddy and I found a dollar somebody [...]
When I was a little girl, I fell in love with a boy, and that love has never left me. I may say there was a boy in junior high school who was my first love, but there was someone even before him, someone whose eyes I've seen twinkling from the face of [...]
I've been threatening to post about this for months, and I've finally gone and done it: I've got a post up on my other blog about why I'm voting for Hillary Clinton to be the next President of the United States. So, go ahead. Find out why I think Hillary kicks ass. [...]
While I was away, I made a little behind the scenes change and added advertisements to A Room of Mama's Own. I know, it does seem a little crass to paper my walls with marketing materials, but you know I did agonize over it. Let me tell you what tipped the scales (other than [...]
