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What The Heck is “Lagom”? One Woman's Attempt At A Simpler Life. 3 for 1: Carry-On Bags. April 14, 2015. Back in November, when I went to France, I wanted to make sure I packed a good carry on for the long flight. I wouldn’t say I brought an excessive amount of stuff, but I wanted to bring enough items to keep me happy for about ten hours of plane travel, as well as a few necessities in case my luggage got lost. For me, that meant packing the following:. Small makeup bag w/basic makeup items. It’s ...
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam: Of homecoming queens, boogers, and goodbyes said too soon
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam. Thursday, June 27, 2013. Of homecoming queens, boogers, and goodbyes said too soon. 65279; . Laura Hardy, 1980 (thanks, Chris Chebuhar). Here's just one of the reasons I felt that way. This was the Laura I remember:. 8220;Congratulations on making cheerleading, Laura! 8221; I said one morning after results had been posted. 8220;Oh, thanks – I was really surprised! Or there was this. I won some minor writing contest once, and the school newspaper carried a little blurb. Laura...
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam: The rudeness is getting worse. Stop it, please.
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam. Sunday, October 14, 2012. The rudeness is getting worse. Stop it, please. Two nights ago, I attended an event at which President Bill Clinton appeared. I returned home and posted some pictures of the president on Facebook. One friend, a Republican, left a post on my wall that read: "So happy for you that you were able to see him. I'm sure you had a great time.". This is what set me off tonight: A post that involved a photo of a piece of toast and the words "Barack Obama, November ...
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam: "You're in the nicest store in the whole city, Lisa..."
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam. Saturday, March 29, 2014. You're in the nicest store in the whole city, Lisa.". In the Kinks' song "Come Dancing," singer Ray Davies laments the demise during his childhood of a dance hall his then-teenage sister had frequented. "The day they knocked down the palais, part of my childhood died," Davies sings of watching the building fall. And, in a white box with a gold ribbon, a hunk of Roquefort cheese. (Smelly cheese in a box, as a treat? And pastries and poetry. I have friends ...
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam: Laughing with the enemy: From "Real Housewives" to "Sister Wives" with my children's stepmother
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam. Monday, March 30, 2015. Laughing with the enemy: From "Real Housewives" to "Sister Wives" with my children's stepmother. Divorce is awful, no matter how you slice it. No matter what leads to it, and no matter if the parties involved are better off apart, it's still a horrible thing to go through, especially if kids are involved. She was, and is, my ex-husband's wife. Them When the kids were young, her place in their lives made me miserable and jealous. It didn't matter that my...
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam: I've become the dreaded "lapsed Catholic." Is Easter a good time to make amends?
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam. Friday, April 3, 2015. I've become the dreaded "lapsed Catholic." Is Easter a good time to make amends? This is going to be pretty personal, even for me. I didn't always pay attention. Sometimes I slipped out the side door right after Communion. I was not a good Catholic. I was disrespectful to my parents," I'd say, not really remembering if I had been or not. The priest would tell me to do better, then sentence me to one Our Father and two Hail Marys. And that was it unti...So I ...
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam: Dogging the Duggars, Part Deux
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam. Tuesday, July 19, 2011. Dogging the Duggars, Part Deux. So here we go again with the Duggars. The blog post I wrote a couple of weeks ago. First, I don’t hate the show. And second, even if I did, I'd still watch; I don’t expose myself only to things I like. I enjoy watching shows that make me think, and this one does. To recap: Michelle has a baby roughly every 18 months to two years. Once she has the child, she’s - by her own admission - the baby’s “buddy...Of course, Mom and ...
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam: Sometimes, it helps to look back.
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam. Monday, March 16, 2015. Sometimes, it helps to look back. March 16, 2013. When I was a little girl, a woman named Ann Bradford was our next-door neighbor. Ann was in her 40s and was a matronly woman with a tight perm and polyester clothes. I was around middle-school age when Ann showed me a picture of herself as a teenager, and I was stunned to see she had been very pretty. As much as it pains me to admit it, I've become Ann Bradford. I can't attribute the weight to anything in pa...
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam: Have all the babies you want, but raise 'em yourselves.
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam. Monday, June 27, 2011. Have all the babies you want, but raise 'em yourselves. 65279;To me, being a liberal means being accepting of others' views, whether or not they happen to coincide with my own. That said, though, I am having a hard time with the Duggars. The Duggars, if you haven't yet come across them, are an. Family with 19 kids. They're conservative fundamentalists who subscribe to Bill Gothard's. Institute in Basic Life Principles. 19 Kids and Counting. At the beginning,...
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam: The Memory Board
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Lisa Lisa, No Cult Jam. Sunday, July 10, 2011. The Memory Board is a sheet of foam board onto which I've crafted a memorial to the members of our class who have passed away. The members of the West Des Moines Dowling Class of 1981 are all 47 or 48 now, and we've lost 10 people. We had no deaths in the '80s, but in the '90s, they began, continuing until last year. Cancer, traffic accidents, suicides. Substance abuse claimed at least one member of our class. Another was murdered out of state. There they ar...
