Tag Archives: mothers

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  a douche, a baseball bat and judge judy: renting my house to a delinquent tenant

  Posted on October 4, 2011 by nikki in love of a mother.

  In April of 2008 I quit my job at the local health department in Austin and flew to Nigeria to help track and treat a meningitis epidemic with my on again, off again employer Doctors Without Borders. It all happened so quickly that I was barely able to pack my bag for the summer, much […]

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• the botoxed heart

  Posted on September 26, 2011 by nikkimeredith in health and beauty, odds and sods.

  My husband wouldn’t smile at me. To be fair, he, more accurately, couldn’t smile at me. He was hit in the mouth with a hockey stick and required stitches both inside and outside. He’s a long time hockey player so over the years he’s had many injuries – this wasn’t even close to the worst […]

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