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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Dec 20, 2009 |
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Best Of Worst Of - Best Of Worst Of: It's not going to be similar to the lists that magazines and newspapers usually put out around this time of year, because we're dealing with my personal lists. Which can be random.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Dec 13, 2009 |
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Neighborhood Watch - Neighborhood Watch: Nicole has been stuck inside of late. To pass the time sit in a giant purple chair and watches the world through her big picture window.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Dec 06, 2009 |
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Dear Reader - Dear Reader: Wake up. Take kids to school. Go back to bed. Sleep until 3. Welcome home oldest daughter. Go back to sleep. Get up at 5 or 6, greet husband. Go back to sleep.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Nov 29, 2009 |
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More Zaniness From Chez Freire - More Zaniness From Chez Freire: Did you eat too much like we did? Did you try and hog all the stuffing to yourself like I did? Actually, Turkey Day is sort of a blur to me. Why? I knew you'd ask.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Nov 22, 2009 |
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The Obligatory Vampire Column - The Obligatory Vampire Column: Vampires disliked garlic and crosses. As a young girl, I had no idea where to get garlic, but I sure could make crosses.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Nov 15, 2009 |
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Unbridled Amounts Of Glee - Unbridled Amounts Of Glee: Now there are lots of things that make me happy, simple and complicated. I like hedgehogs. They're cute. I like sushi. I like being able to put on a pair of jeans that fit.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Nov 08, 2009 |
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Bits of String, A Penny, and Some Lint - Bits of String, A Penny, and Some Lint: Guess what I just had as a little snack? Three small packages of Whoppers, two little bags of candy corn, and a small box of Junior Mints.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 25, 2009 |
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You Just Never Know - You Just Never Know: There are two books that I spent many hours with as a child - The Family of Man, and The Family of Children. These books of photographs affected me just as strongly as any book I ever read.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 18, 2009 |
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More Show And Tell - More Show And Tell : It was hundred and ten degrees inside Nicole's house. She was paging slowly through old books that she wanted to share them with us.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 11, 2009 |
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A Wedding Story - A Wedding Story : Nicole just celebrated 13 years of happy marriage, and she shares her wedding album with us.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 04, 2009 |
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Squishy In The Middle - Squishy In The Middle : To be perfectly honest, I still live in my head most of the time. I'm like a giant balloon head, floating above a tiny and annoying and mysterious body.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 27, 2009 |
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Dictionary Of Nonsense - Dictionary Of Nonsense : As a young child, I was convinced that my parents had friends named the Whoozits, because I would overhear conversations about these mysterious people who never came to brunch on time.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 20, 2009 |
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Eating At Moms - Eating At Moms: Powdered milk and zucchini seem to figure prominently in my childhood memories, as do endless bowls of Cheerios. My sister and I always had a bowl of Cheerios after our baths and before we went to bed.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 06, 2009 |
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Show And Tell - Show And Tell: Let us put some other things on the table while you try to decide what you will do with your Labor Day weekend.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 30, 2009 |
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Plethora of Purses - Plethora of Purses: Some people might not enjoy spending two hours photographing their purse collection, but Nicole does. And did. So you get to see them!
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 23, 2009 |
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Bubbles And Other Nonsense - Bubbles And Other Nonsense : Apparently part of my stomach has been hanging out with Deadheads, dropping multiple tabs of acid, while the other part of my stomach insists on daily infusions of that yogurt Jamie Lee Curtis talks about on television.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 09, 2009 |
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No More Babies - No More Babies: It feels like I've been eating Otter Pops for 12 years, and all of a sudden, the dessert gods are intoning, You may not partake of the Otter Pops ever again.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 02, 2009 |
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Liar Liar Books On Fire - Liar Liar Books On Fire : I have a secret, one I am finally willing to come clean about. I would like to say it is a good secret, but really, it is just an embarrassing one.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 26, 2009 |
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Weekly Round Up! Yee Haw! - Weekly Round Up! Yee Haw! : Nothing extraordinary happened, nothing too sad, nothing sidesplitting funny, just an average week at Chez Freire. But there are lots of little things floating around.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 19, 2009 |
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Let's Talk Smoking - Let's Talk Smoking : What with my eldest headed off to junior high soon, I'm practicing my, Please don't ever fill in the blank speeches. Or lectures.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 12, 2009 |
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Oh My Gosh You Guys! - Oh My Gosh You Guys!: Man, moving is stressful. I don't like change. Some people love to say they embrace change. They're totally lying. Nobody likes change.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 24, 2009 |
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Little Of This, A Lot Of That. - Little Of This, A Lot Of That.: Nicole is unsure when her column appears now. The beers didn't help. Today she has a collection of things that could fit any day.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 10, 2009 |
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How Well Do You Know Your Columnist? - How Well Do You Know Your Columnist?: This week we're all going to play a little game called, How Well Do You Know Your Columnist? If you've been reading my columns for a while, you should do pretty well.
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Quiz Answers - Quiz Answers: Here are the answers to the, How Well Do You Know Your Columnist Quiz.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 03, 2009 |
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Awesome! - Awesome!: What's that you say? You lived in the 1980's? You said things like, For sure, for sure? How about, Dude, that is so rad! Oh yes I did. And it was AWESOME!
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 27, 2009 |
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Donald Franklin Worley - Donald Franklin Worley: It is called a POW/MIA bracelet. It is engraved with the name of a serviceman who was killed in action, but whose remains were never retrieved. Or suspected prisoners of war who were never found.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 20, 2009 |
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Heaven Is Full Of Butterflies - Heaven Is Full Of Butterflies: Some art is worth the seemingly large price tag because of the work that goes into the piece. This is why I like to buy handmade earrings and soap.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 13, 2009 |
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Grimacing At The Keyboard - Grimacing At The Keyboard: I had bronchitis last week and it wasn't getting much better, so I went to the doctor, but not my regular doctor because she was out, so I went to the doctor on call and he scared the hell out of me.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 06, 2009 |
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Happy Birthday From Vietnam - Happy Birthday From Vietnam: When I was born in Sacramento, California on a warm sunny Sunday on May 4, 1969, my father was nearly 7800 miles away in Long Binh, Vietnam.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 30, 2009 |
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You Smell Nice - You Smell Nice: I think my first foray into perfume was Jean Nate. I have a vague memory of telling my mom I wanted to wear perfume and her taking me to the drugstore and buying me a bottle of Jean Nate. I don't remember much beyond that.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 22, 2009 |
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You Always Have Your Sister - You Always Have Your Sister : But the real reason there is another picture of me in this column is the other woman wearing makeup standing next to me. That's my sister.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 15, 2009 |
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Sorry About All That Vomiting - Sorry About All That Vomiting : I tell you readers all sorts of things, so if you think I'm going to pass up the opportunity to tell you about my bout with the stomach flu, well, listen closely.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 01, 2009 |
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Co-Sleeping And Breast-Feeding - Co-Sleeping And Breast-Feeding : When I laid her down in the cradle, I thought to myself, She looks cold and lonely So I picked her up and brought her into our bed, and there she stayed for the next four or five years.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 25, 2009 |
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A Mouse At Chez Freire - A Mouse At Chez Freire: I’m still working on those ideas from a few columns back, so here is today’s. A Pet Brings Solace And Love But Our Landlord Won't Let Us Have One.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 18, 2009 |
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Auctions and Tea Parties - Auctions and Tea Parties : Today is all about school auctions and tea because I am still on my personal journey of green tea discovery. Yes, please listen to my tea feelings.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 11, 2009 |
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So... - So...: So, I’m still catching up on past column ideas that I had shared with you a few weeks ago.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 07, 2009 |
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25 Random Things About Me - 25 Random Things About Me: Nicole like taking the onions out of onion rings and just eating the outside part.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 04, 2009 |
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Holy Cow! Another Column - Holy Cow! Another Column: Nicole tells us why three-quarter length sleeves make her crazy, and that she is not having much success liking green tea.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 28, 2009 |
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I Promised You An Extra Column - I Promised You An Extra Column : I've been saving up topics all week for you readers, and I had so many things stocked up that they have to be sort of parceled out to you in small paragraphs.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 25, 2009 |
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High On Life - High On Life: I was white-knuckling my way through another headache, courtesy of my lack of graceful movement last week . I tried every remedy I could think of - over the counter and off the shelf. Then someone suggested a cup of coffee.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 18, 2009 |
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Hello Edhat Readers - Hello Edhat Readers: I had a much better column planned for today, which is why the photograph accompanying this brief article won’t make much sense. But never fear, I’ll write one later this week that ties in with the photograph. Whoo! A two-fer! And during a short week.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 11, 2009 |
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A Love Letter Of Sorts - A Love Letter Of Sorts : I love that even though Santa Barbara is a small town, there are a few ballet companies, some lovely theaters, a few world-class universities, and some really good Indian food.
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Eating The Bacon - Eating The Bacon: I am doing something I swore I would never do. I am keeping a diary. Not a diary where I write my special secret thoughts for posterity, no, this diary is strictly boring.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 28, 2009 |
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Sorry About Those Bananas - Sorry About Those Bananas: Yeah, I kind of disappeared last week. My mother called right away, demanding to know where her column was. Co-workers asked me where my writing was. My patient editor, Ed, sent me an email that simply said, "Article?"
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 14, 2009 |
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Headaches, Roman Polanski, and Pretty Pictures - Headaches, Roman Polanski, and Pretty Pictures: I had intended to write an article about Roman Polanski today but I was up all night with a migraine so big that it had to have come from Texas.
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Not Really My Dog - Not Really My Dog: I do not have a dog. But I wasn't lying about having a dog as much as I was appropriating a dog for conversational needs. And the dog does exist; she belongs to my parents. Isn't she pretty?
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