Yearly Archives: 2012
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sex, surrogacy and supper: the movie the sessions, part 1
Posted on December 17, 2012 by nikkimeredith in friendship, health and beauty, movie review, odds and sods.Last week I was having dinner with six of my friends – all of them, to one degree or other, hip or at least hipish. I mentioned that I saw The Sessions, the recently released film starring Helen Hunt and John Hawkes. I was fired-up about the film and I wanted to discuss it. Specifically, […]
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thanksgiving in jail
Posted on December 1, 2012 by nikki in holidays, unexpected adventures.In September I started teaching a journalism class at the county jail here in Austin. The homework assignment I left the students with before Thanksgiving was to write a review of something they experienced either in jail or in their past: a TV show, a movie, a concert. I gave them five minutes of class […]
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living with chronic pain – someone else’s: part I
Posted on November 2, 2012 by nikkimeredith in family, friendship, health and beauty, migraine and chronic pain.I woke up this morning smiling. It was the first morning in three days that I didn’t have either searing pain behind my right eye or nausea. I took the dog for a walk with a sizable bounce in my step. I ate breakfast and after breakfast I took a shower and, as I towel-dried […]
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absence makes the stomach grow fonder: food variety deprivation, fantasy and phenomena in the humanitarian aid worker life
Posted on October 21, 2012 by nikki in aid work, odds and sods, rituals, unexpected adventures.Food cravings are a motherfucker. After a few weeks of being in the field with the same slop every day, my gastronomic fantasy life takes on a bigger and bigger portion of my conscious and unconscious mind with debilitating consequences. I’ve been through this cycle enough times now to recognize the signs and symptoms, which […]
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what do I have in common with Julia Roberts? how being a dog owner is like being a celebrity
Posted on September 25, 2012 by nikkimeredith in dogs, family, odds and sods, rituals, unexpected adventures.I have never been, nor will I ever be, a celebrity — not even for Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes. But I maintain that having a dog shares some of the features of celebrityhood and if you walk around with two dogs, you’re on your way to being a super celebrity. When our dog Alice was […]
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