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Yes, I ate all your ice cream.

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This weekend, I discovered from an influencer’s Instagram page that it was National Ice Cream Day. (Belated Happy National Ice Cream Day, if I forgot to wish you one.) She was showing how to make coconut milk ice cream, which is NOT ice cream and can wait till National Milk-Alternative Frozen Dessert Day, but anyway. […]

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food, self-help-y stuff college, eating, eating disorders, Europe, food, memories

Shit. I said a bad word.

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There’s this twitter user you’ve probably heard of called “Shit My Dad Says.” He’s been on the scene since early Twitter. He tweets shit his dad says, and his feed was turned into a 2010 network tv show starring William Shatner. Except, of course, it wasn’t called “Shit My Dad Says.” It was written “$#*! […]

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hand-picked, language, memories, my dad, TV childhood, cursing, language, memories, my dad

Gifts for the dad who feels everything

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Today is my dad’s 78th birthday. Buying presents for him is always hard.  Not because he’s “the man who has everything,” but because he’s “the man who wants nothing normal.”

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family, hand-picked, memories, my dad, New York City, nostalgia birthdays, childhood, dad, family, gifts, memories, my dad, shopping

Free trip to Europe!*

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(*Via sensory memory only. Certain terms and conditions may apply.) In Europe, they like to pick one song and play it over and over and over. That song, and only that song.

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memories 1980s, Europe, memories, music, video

Kid, you’ve got it easy.

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40 doesn’t feel old to me like I always thought it would. Except for a few things: This year’s bumper crop of gray hairs. The cracking joints – occurring during any and all movements, where they used to be limited to things like deep squats. I sound like bubble wrap. My husband calls me “Creaks.” […]

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memories, nostalgia 1970s, 1980s, aging, gen-x, memories, nostalgia, old people, tech, technology

I didn’t got the look.

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I started 5th grade in 1979. That’s when designer jeans were “all the rage.”  An expression your grandmother would use, but really – they were the rage. All the sexy girls in my class wore them. (Yes, to ten year olds, other ten year olds are sexy.)

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middle school, wayback 1970s, 1980s, childhood, commercials, jeans, memories, video

It’s like coming to Broad-WAY!

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Action Park was a water park in New Jersey that deservedly earned the nickname “Accident Park” or, alternately, “Class Action Park.” Having gone there once a summer to slide head-first down their uninspected concrete water slides, with some fat kid crashing into us from behind every time, it’s a miracle my sister and I are […]

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TV 1980s, action park, commercials, memories, TV, video

How much is that doggie smell in the window?

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  You may think you make your own buying decisions. But not for long. Soon, your nose will tell you how to spend your money.

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marketing, memories marketing, memories, pet peeves, smells

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