February 2012
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In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according tonewspapers at the time, he...
January 2012
10 posts
Brother Bob's kids - never knew there were so... →
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“So we must fix our visions not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but upon...”
– —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel Prize Lecture at the University of Oslo, 11 December 1964
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“Basing a marriage on something as subjective as “love” (no one seems...”
First restaurant of 2012: The Dutch
So far, so excellent!
December 2011
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I resolve to love more, embrace happiness and find...
“Looking back, even the admission essay I wrote that got me into a top graduate...”
November 2011
6 posts
Parents, don't dress your girls like tramps →
Recurring thought for the last 4 days
This year is the first and last year I host Thanksgiving.
It was beautiful, and full of fun and excitement. But I will gladly bake a turkey, 2 pies, and the pot roast and take it to someone else’s house. In all future years.
I can't stop myself from constantly thinking about...
October 2011
2 posts
“ When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,...”
– Dale Carnegie
September 2011
9 posts
“Listening to an Adele song makes me thank Shauna Sand’s exquisite lucite...”
– dlisted.com
“A Rasta n his Empress r in court getting a divorce. d problem was, who should...”
Worst chore as a child: packing away groceries...
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“As I look at my mail from across the globe, from places I have never ever...”
9 Things I'm Thankful For
1. I had a childhood; a real childhood. One filled with decorating dollhouses, birthday parties where we played musical chairs and blew out candles, learning to ride bicycles and rollerskate, where we made up dances and made fun of each other - not by being harmful and hurtful, but playful and awkward. Knowing the difference between adult behavior and what was expected of me - as a child.
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August 2011
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The Frenemy.: The Best Things In The World →
thefrenemy:
Finally removing all the shit from your room that has piled on the floor and you say ‘oh look I put the underwear in the underwear DRAWER’ and then thinking you have accomplished something like not having your room look like a crime scene. Seriously, your room looks like a crime scene where…
Married, With Infidelities →
Hypocrisy →
July 2011
3 posts
The Frenemy.: Let Go →
thefrenemy:
of:
people who don’t call you, the t-shirt from the ex, the insecurities about the way you dance, or sing, the shoes you’ve had in your closet for 6 years and are so raggedy but they still fit, that nagging feeling you’ll die alone.
that one time somebody called you ugly, that one time you got…
May 2011
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“It’s our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.”
– Peter Ustinov
“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or...”
– E.B White “Here is New York” from Essays of E.B White, which I am presently devouring. (via curbsideprophet)
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