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A DMB Twist of Fate Brought Me a Message for the Class of 2024
In 1968, Hugh Heffner opened The Playboy Club in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The decadent resort featured a restaurant where waitresses donned Playboy Bunny costumes and served the mid-west’s most sophisticated tourists, Hollywood’s elite, close cronies of the Playboy empire, and …. me. In what can only be attributed to 1970s parenting, my Uncle Joe took my family to lunch at The Playboy Club in…
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Why the Last Six Weeks Before My Oldest Goes to College Feels Oddly Familiar
Why the Last Six Weeks Before My Oldest Goes to College Feels Oddly Familiar
“When will I have fun again?” I asked my older sister a few weeks after giving birth to my first child. She was three years into motherhood and pregnant with her second, so I was relying on her sage wisdom. “Eighteen years.” she said without a hint of sarcasm or levity. That did it. The tears I had been choking down spilled freely like an freshly unclogged faucet. 18 years? 18 years? I am…
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Stepping into Hope
I can’t believe the day has finally arrived. What should I wear? No, I can’t wear that, they saw me in that shirt last month. Where are my pants with a zipper? I better leave enough time to do my hair…. Anticipation surges through me every four weeks when I hop in my car and drive to the podiatrist. Having a rare autoimmune disease, I’ve essentially been under house arrest since last March.…
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Weathering the Covid-19 Storm, One Student at a Time
This piece was Cowritten by Dr. Jim O’Malley
Having taught for 24 years, I thought I had seen it all. But nothing could have prepared me for teaching through a pandemic. Covid -19 has brought the educational system as we knew it to a screeching halt. With lightning speed, our students’ daily lives have been shattered; going from a predictable rhythm to unstructured hours stretching before them.…
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My Face Looks the Way the World Feels
I can’t recall if my head hit the porcelain slab before or after my legs slid out from under me. All I remember was the steady cascade of crimson blood staining my shower curtain, drizzling down the side of the tub, and pooling on the tile. In the seconds that lapsed between a careless fall in the shower and my pleas for help, a lifetime-worth of fears surged through me, flooding my mind at…
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Having Been on a Ventilator, I’d Like to Sit This Pandemic Out
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Having Been on a Ventilator, I’d Like to Sit This Pandemic Out
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Having Been on a Ventilator, I’d Like to Sit This Pandemic Out
Why We Must Practice Social Distancing in the Face of Covid-19
I have bled out during emergency surgery and been revived by the expert trauma and transplant team who raced into my operating room.
I have had liter upon liter of donated blood transfused into my grey lifeless body.
I survived months on a ventilator in an intensive care unit.
I have had my lungs fill up with fluid, hurling me into…
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Tales from an Unlikely Beach Babe: Calling a Truce in My Battle with Swimsuits
Tales from an Unlikely Beach Babe: Calling a Truce in My Battle with Swimsuits
There’s a photo of me in an adorable yellow bikini. My platinum blonde locks glisten in the sunlight, perfectly contrasting my golden tan. I’m posing poolside with a radiant smile and sparkling green eyes.
I was two.
The pool was of the plastic wading variety.
The year was 1976; before scleroderema desolated my body.
That cute bikini-wearing toddler had no idea that eight years later, a rare…
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Celebrating the Messiness of Motherhood
Celebrating the Messiness of Motherhood
My past Mother’s Day blogs have focused on singular aspects of motherhood. I’ve dug into how my dysfunctional childhood shaped me as a parent, the challenges of motherhood, the simultaneous joy and grief we mamas experience as our children grow older, and of course, I’ve saluted America’s #1 Mom; Carol Brady. Writing allows me to explore the different facets of motherhood in separate silos, but…
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The Marvelous Rachel Brosnahan- Giving Credence to the Creative Arts
The Marvelous Rachel Brosnahan- Giving Credence to the Creative Arts
“I can see Russia from my house.”
Who remembers that famous one-liner spoken by Tina Fey when she portrayed Sarah Palin in 2008? Well, I’ve got a new spin on that legendary quote.
“I can see Northwood from my house.”
Don’t stop reading- I can explain! Northwood is not just the school where my son graduated, and my daughter currently attends junior high. It is where the marvelous Rachel Brosnahanw…
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Realistic Resolutions and Mascot Moments for 2019
Realistic Resolutions and Mascot Moments for 2019
I didn’t know it was possible for human glands to generate so much sweat. Fluid sprinkling from my scalp like a showerhead dribbles over my eyelids, blurring my vision. Perspiration drips down my back, pooling at the bottom of my shirt and rim of my jeans. My tongue is carpeted in a thick layer of wool. I glance at the clock on the wall. Five minutes down, 55 to go.
5 Hours Earlier….
The first…
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And She's Off! My Niece is Leaving for College and I've Got Big Feelings!
And She’s Off! My Niece is Leaving for College and I’ve Got Big Feelings!
I’ve been feeling sentimental lately. My sister’s daughter leaves for her freshman year of college this week. With her and her parents’ permission, I’m sharing the letter I wrote for my one and only niece.
Hannah Banana-
I remember the day your mom told me I was going to be an aunt. I ran around screaming with excitement. To say that I was elated is an understatement. For months, I watched your…
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Crisis at the Border, Snowflakes, and 218 Days Separated from My Children
Crisis at the Border, Snowflakes, and 218 Days Separated from My Children
It’s been fixed! The kids who were separated from their parents at the border will be reunited. There have been rulings and executive orders. So why people are people protesting?
I’m neither politically savvy nor a lawyer, but I do know that there are thousands of children who remain separated from their parents and have yet to be reunited. As you read this, these children don’t know when and…
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Swapping Grief for Gratitude This Father’s Day
Swapping Grief for Gratitude This Father’s Day
As I’ve mentioned in previous pieces, I’ve always hated Father’s Day. My parents divorced when I was 6-years-old and the only grandfather I ever knew died that same year. Due to my dad’s intense struggle with Bi-Polar Disorder, my relationship with him was fully severed by the time I turned 10. My dad’s death in 2013, erased all hope of ever establishing a reason to celebrate Father’s Day.
Funny…
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My Overdue Apology to Carol Brady this Mother’s Day
My Overdue Apology to Carol Brady this Mother’s Day
On March 8, 1974, the final episode of The Brady Bunch aired. I was born later that year, hence missing out on ever watching the show live. Lucky for me, and the rest of the free world, the show has been in continuous syndication ever since.
My sister and I spent our childhood watching reruns of this iconic sitcom. One of my coolest party tricks is the ability to identify an episode’s plot within…
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Valentine’s Day Has Been Hijacked by the Grouch!
Valentine’s Day Has Been Hijacked by the Grouch!
Readers: This blog was guest written by the one and only, Grouchy Dave Helfand Lisa, my editor (and wife) came into our room last night and informed me that this was the first year since she started her blog that she hadn’t written a piece for Valentine’s Day. She asked if I would write one instead. Since the Winter Olympics is on (I’m not a big fan) and there’s no Bulls Basketball on tonight, I…
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