me on me

I turned 30 today.
Every few years, just before my birthday, I would chronicle in my journal who I am at that point in my life. I first started doing this right before my 20th birthday. The chronicle could be lists of things I like, a paragraph of my beliefs and opinions, thoughts on how I [...]

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who’s your daddy?

I heard on the radio today that NBC is coming up with a new reality TV show called “My Dad’s Better Than Yours”. I’m not sure what the premise of the show is, but basically it pits father/son and father/daughter pairs against each other for a chance to win $50,000.
I don’t know if my dad [...]

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I am a ham, I am

Yesterday, BGP and I went to the grocery store to shop for Thanksgiving dinner*. We got our turkey (the smallest we found was just under 18 lbs.) and all the fixin’.
Then BGP saw a whole ham that she wanted to prepare for dinner (and leftovers of course). Great thing was that it was on sale, [...]

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the girl in pigtails

when I was in 4th grade, there was this little girl who moved to our school.
She was a Navy kid.
I remember she would play Chinese jumprope in the playground with her friends.
She had long, beautiful, black hair, which she sometimes wore in pigtails that bounced when she jumped. She was one of the cool kids [...]

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fall

it’s officially fall. it’s my favorite season.
it’s been a nice one thus far in northern california. Weather is mild. Rains haven’t come yet.
But most of the trees here are now scantily clad in the few fiery leaves just waiting to make their final descent.
BGP was watching pretty leaves fall off the trees one day with [...]

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