Yearly Archives: 2013
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Chris Bully Boy Christie: Obesity and Empathy and the New Jersey Govenor
Posted on December 27, 2013 by nikkimeredith in health and beauty, politics and religion.When I was in high school, my best friend and I were walking across the parking lot at a southern California beach where my family camped every summer. Three boys our age were walking towards us. My friend and one of the boys, a hefty guy…okay, a fat guy, got into one of those do-si-do […]
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jew-ish: the life and times of a one-sixteenth jew
Posted on October 30, 2013 by nikki in family, odds and sods, politics and religion, unexpected adventures.I am one-sixteenth Jewish. It’s funny to say it like that, but that’s what it comes down to on the family tree. And, I guess that’s how much Jewish I feel. One-sixteenth. How exactly does that translate? Most of the time I don’t feel Jewish, but I don’t feel not Jewish either. I feel Jewish-ish. […]
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pooches and pot
Posted on October 7, 2013 by nikkimeredith in dogs, odds and sods, unexpected adventures.Every week brings news of yet another way dogs help humans. We’ve know for a while they can be excellent detectives – diagnosing melanoma with their noses, sensing dangerous blood sugar fluctuations in diabetics and discerning imminent seizures in epileptics. People with dogs are generally healthier – after acquiring a pooch they exercise more, their […]
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friends of friends / after a good friend dies
Posted on August 26, 2013 by nikkimeredith in friendship.What falls away is always. And is near. -Theodore Roethke About ten years ago, four of us – two couples — were sitting on the deck of a house at Sea Ranch, shielding our eyes from the dazzling sun. We were passing the binoculars around, trying to spot dolphins leaping through the surf. Though the […]
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six weeks in the desert: green valley, arizona
Posted on June 28, 2013 by nikkimeredith in odds and sods, rituals, science/research, unexpected adventures.At home above my desk I have posted this poem by Mary Oliver: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Oliver calls the poem “instructions for living a life” and it’s advice I try implementing every day of the year — every day except for the six weeks between Memorial Day and the 4th of […]
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