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The Big Significance of Small Business

Posted on August 23, 2012 by This Woman Writes

Normally, I avoid buying cookies, or anything, from strange children on my doorstep. It’s not so much that I discourage budding entrepreneurs as that I prefer to not support the mega-companies providing the product and pocketing most of the profits. … Continue reading →

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Please Stop Educating Me — I Want to Learn Something

Posted on July 25, 2012 by This Woman Writes

I am one of the 1 percent. Nah, I’m not talking money; when it comes to that I’m in another 1 percent, you know, the ones who re-use plastic grocery bags as spontaneous suitcases for overnight trips. No, I am … Continue reading →

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Are they Brats or Simply Bored Children?

Posted on August 25, 2011 by This Woman Writes

In other words, they behaved like normal children in a 12 x 15 room with nothing in it but fishing magazines and a flat screen, and they didn’t sit still, and they weren’t quiet, and they didn’t just watch the movie and stop bothering people the way adults, trained to glue their eyes to the screen, expect them to. Continue reading →

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The Summer of Our Contentment

Posted on June 22, 2011 by This Woman Writes

Colleagues at home, I know you know what I’m talking about, even more so now because it’s summer and there are extra people in the office for the next couple months. Continue reading →

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Is Trivia Really Trivial?

Posted on March 1, 2011 by This Woman Writes

Despite the challenges, raising children is infinitely preferable to doing laundry, although it’s not as if there were a choice in the matter to drop the latter from your life, and finding the right detergent to do the job is a task I am still working on, as that first baby is producing laundry creators of her own. Continue reading →

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The Dreaded German Meal Knocks Life Awry

Posted on November 10, 2010 by This Woman Writes

Cocooned in my baby-of-the-family world, I assumed for years that I was the only one who wept upon returning from school and smelling that peculiar acrid smell, but at a family gathering once I mentioned the “German Meal” and was surprised to hear all four sibling groan.

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