Monthly Archives: February 2010

mom and daughter book club journals

February 25, 2010 – 3:34 pm

My 8-year-old daughter and I started a book club this year. I suggested it because some of the books being read by our daughter at school were a little violent and depressing for our family’s taste. (I kind of lost it when she was reading aloud a part in a book where two children had [...]

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the essential handkerchief

February 18, 2010 – 7:43 pm

Until I moved to Japan after college, I had never carried a handkerchief. The handkerchief was a throwback to my grandmother’s generation I thought and was something one waived in the air while waiting for smelling salts before you were about to faint. The hankies I knew were white and lacy. Definitely old fashioned I [...]

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baby it’s cold outside

February 10, 2010 – 3:58 pm

[A note from Weeks: I am recommending the products below because they're great. I don't receive any financial benefit from any of the makers or retailers listed below.] Here are my credentials for advising you on how to stay warm: I’ve lived in Chicago for the past 14 years. I’ve got this winter thing down! [...]

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scarf blocking 101

February 4, 2010 – 6:06 pm

While living in Japan in the late ’80s I contracted the chicken pox on vacation in China. I was 28 and it hit me hard. For an entire month I was confined to my lovely apartment in Tokyo with little to do but sleep and wait it out. I didn’t even have the energy to [...]

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