Author Archives: onesanevoice

Get Out of the Room

Posted on November 24, 2007 by onesanevoice

The program I am in at school is extremely intense with a higher than average drop-out rate.  I am halfway through now and no way will I become a statistic.  I need you to remember I said that so you … Continue reading →

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Fourth and Goal

Posted on November 20, 2007 by onesanevoice

This weekend was classic football weather with that crystal bite in the air and magenta leaves in transit and the distant thump of a high school marching band.  We live within earshot of a high school, the one Daughter attended, … Continue reading →

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Barking in the Dark

Posted on November 16, 2007 by onesanevoice

I see lately that readers are opening the entry Who Let The Dog Out? possibly expecting it to be about the latest woes of bounty hunter Duane Chapman in a politically correct America.  But it happens that the entry in question was … Continue reading →

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Cuts Both Ways

Posted on November 12, 2007 by onesanevoice

You can count me among those who avoid any type of elective surgery or needle-related body art which means I will be easily recognized in years to come as the unadorned woman whose upper cheeks meet her lower cheeks because … Continue reading →

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Rolling an Even Seven

Posted on November 8, 2007 by onesanevoice

This week Husband and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary and since our schedules didn’t allow us to do dinner on the actual day itself, we went for a lovely brunch this past Sunday when the opportunity presented itself amidst … Continue reading →

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Oceans of Knowledge

Posted on November 4, 2007 by onesanevoice

Today I read Dear Abby in the newspaper and one of the questions was from a 13-year-old who had experienced a traumatic incident in the life of an early adolescent.  She had been cleaning out her fish tank in the … Continue reading →

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Take Me Away, eBay

Posted on October 31, 2007 by onesanevoice

There is no better friend to the insomniac than a place where anyone anywhere can sell anything anytime.  And where there is someone selling, there is someone buying, or as the case may be, bidding.  It’s like being at a … Continue reading →

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But Then I’d Have to Kill You

Posted on October 27, 2007 by onesanevoice

There’s a teacher at my school who I sometimes chat with between classes while she has a smoke in the parking lot.  I normally avoid people while they’re smoking because I’m a long-ago reformed smoker whose father recently died of … Continue reading →

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Wild Grannies Can’t Be Broken

Posted on October 23, 2007 by onesanevoice

Over the weekend we went to our friends’ wedding and on the way a fellow guest we gave a ride to told some memorable stories about her Irish grandmother.  Husband and I shared reminiscences about our equally colorful Jewish grandmothers … Continue reading →

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Those old time Billboard blues

Posted on October 19, 2007 by onesanevoice

When I was a teenager and had occasion to leave my room and join the rest of the household, my parents would sometimes have the radio on or a record playing.  Invariably, what would hit my ears would be Tony … Continue reading →

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