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A Goodbye to the Duck

We went to Lou’s funeral in New Jersey yesterday. It was one of these moments of looking around at my parents and two of their oldest friends George and Chris and just thinking, “Are we really here doing this?”   … Continue reading

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For The Duck

My Uncle Louie passed away this weekend.  He was an uncle by spirit, not by blood, and was better known to the world as legendary DJ Lou “the Duck” D’Antonio, starting in the early years of WFMU, back when my … Continue reading

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Get It Done, Scels!

I am in serious procrastination mode today – trying to finish transferring edits of my book from a hard copy to the computer.  An excellent form of distraction has been playing with the gadgets on my new laptop, one of … Continue reading

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Ladies’ Night

  “That Pretty Pretty, or The Rape Play” by Sheila Callaghan just opened at the Rattlestick theater this week.  I saw it on saturday with Amanda and Laura, and I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s hard for me to put … Continue reading

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Kate Likes To…

I’m not usually up for those Facebook note list things (seriously, there aren’t 25 interesting things about me that you don’t know already) but this one is pretty amazing. The task is to go to Google and type your name … Continue reading

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Mama Said There’d Be Days Like This

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Are You Happy, Winter?

Today I bought my first ever puffy down jacket because I am tired of being cold.  I go outside in my beautiful red Swedish embroidered coat, and I am instantly frozen.  You would think that the Swedes would insulate a winter … Continue reading

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What the Duck, Indeed

To be filed under: “Please Do Not Let Hollywood Get Ahold of This and Make It Into A Zany Talking Animal Movie” Because Joe and Frank are too good for that. I still don’t quite understand the “funny story” that … Continue reading

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The dawning of a new light on a day of new shining hope and light and America

I got home from a 10 day tour in Lisbon yesterday and we had a new president.  For the first time ever I was happy that there were TVs on in the airport.  While we were waiting on line to … Continue reading

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The Danger of Numbers (and Real Estate)

Just a little story to start things off, and at least partially explain my state of mind as I have spent the entire week attempting to make myself a website only to run into lists of instructions that stopped being … Continue reading

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