Category Archives: politics and religion
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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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they do it better in dutch: sex workers and the disabled
Posted on January 15, 2013 by nikki in health and beauty, movie review, politics and religion, unexpected adventures.My mom’s last two blog posts about sexual surrogacy and the movie “The Sessions” (see part 1 and part 2) reminded me of one of my old pieces of dinner party trivia. In Holland, the government pays sex workers to have sex with physically disabled people. I know – crazy, right? At least that was […]
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was nora ephron right? does getting older suck?
Posted on July 23, 2012 by nikkimeredith in politics and religion.In the last essay in her book “I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman,” the late Nora Ephron expressed unhappiness about being older. The tone, which borders on the desolate, is quite different than the lightness of the other essays in the book. ‘The honest truth is that it’s […]
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the only thing Jesus Christ and J.R. Ewing have in common
Posted on June 27, 2012 by nikki in odds and sods, politics and religion.A Northern Californian childhood had some major advantages. There were mountains to hike and ski, the ocean to swim and fish, and the Redwood forest to breathe in and explore. The cultural patrimony was rich as well: hippies. At least in the late ’70’s and early ’80’s, in Marin County hippies were parked in their […]
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