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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Missing Tax Returns

January 30, 2012

  It is a rainy, misty day in Londondelphia and Vicki sits at her kitchen table, absentmindedly spooning Nutella from the jar and brooding. There are hundreds of papers scattered about and her hair is dishevelled.  She makes small noises of curiosity from time to time and rifles through the papers systematically, throwing some on the floor when she is done. The tea kettle goes off again and again distantly in the background. Mr. B walks into the room with ...

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The internet is making us stupid (or, I’m better than you because I broke my phone)

January 24, 2012

I’ve been living semi-technology free lately, but not by choice, and I think it’s making me smarter. But also more desperate. Let me paint a picture for you. (or Google image search, as the situation may be.)   A couple weeks ago (12 days and counting), I sent in my brand-new cell phone in for repairs. Since then, I’ve been unreachable before and after work, and on weekends. At the same time, we cancelled cable last week.  And yesterday, we ...

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I Feel Like a Whole Red Square of People is in My Head and Other Personal Branding Problems

July 25, 2011

When I started this blog two-some years ago, personal branding was all the rage, and everyone was all like, you have to blog under your own name so your ideas get heard and you build yourself up.  What everyone didn’t tell me is that once you blog under your own name, you have to self-censor to the point where all your content becomes bland and boring, especially if you’re employed and have family. Maybe this is why most personal branding ...

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Friday Links

February 25, 2011

What’s better than reading my complaining on my blog?  How about reading it in an ebook? Put together by my Twitter friend Suzanne?  About Shabbat? Clickly clickly on the link to register and download the PDF, if you so desire. I should probably mention that this piece was edited to exclude the fact that what I’ve eaten by accident on Yom Kippur was shrimp and the way I currently commemorate Shabbat is by listening to Shabbat music on my iPod ...

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Let’s Navel-Gaze about Our Names!

January 13, 2011

Let’s take a break from talking about OMGAsianMoms and do something fun. source. Yesterday as I was snowed in, I came across this thread which asks the question: what were you going to be named? To date, it has 640 comments which means it’s struck a nerve, and I can completely understand.  Names are important for a number of reasons and many cultures, including Judaism, believe that a name will shape a child’s destiny.  Which is why I, as a Victoria, ...

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