Monthly Archives: August 2009

Garage Sale Friday

Posted on August 10, 2009 by admin

A little too excited, perhaps, because I found that $10 is kind of a lot to pay for Ikea blocks at a garage sale, so it was by no means a good deal. Continue reading →

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The Beginning of the Fall Art Auction Season

Posted on August 6, 2009 by admin

I am keeping a close watch on Barridoff Galleries and James D. Julia in particular, as they each have a fantastic offering of American art, and I am eager to see how the prices realized from their sales might, in effect, take the current pulse of the market for good investment quality American art. Continue reading →

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Dishwashing, phosphate-free

Posted on August 5, 2009 by admin

Those of you that have dishwashers have probably settled into a comfortable routine with the detergent of your choice, but if that comfortable routine involves a detergent that contains phosphates, I’m afraid a change is due. The market is already littered with a handful of phosphate-free detergents, and as I’ve tried many of them over the course of the last year or two (with a little nudge from my very eco-wise mom), I offer my experiences and my favorite pick from among them.
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Why I love Nurse Jackie

Posted on August 4, 2009 by admin

Maybe the cognitive dissonace begins when we think of the ideal here….the “saint” portion of the picture. The warm, caring nurse who does everything in her power to assist, as best she is able, the unfortunate souls who end up in the emergency room. At once maternal, tough, nonjudgmental. Now turn this ideal inside out. From Jackie’s eyes: chaos, neverending crises, death, alternately smug and detached doctors, the trenches of a broken system. And it’s her job to hoist up her end of the mast. Is it any wonder, then, that in order to actually perform well in this untenable situation, that she needs a enough drugs to kill a small horse? Continue reading →

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The Female Body

Posted on August 3, 2009 by admin

As I read the book, I actually felt dumber and dumber. As I finished, I had gained plenty of insight, but was deeply embarrassed that I had never learned this stuff, which was actually so basic to the female body and its cycles. Continue reading →

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