Monthly Archives: December 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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