Category Archives: life

Quick Matchmaker Update

Posted on September 8, 2014 by travelfoodandlife

Apologies for the absences – Mama Cooper has been extending her stay, and the longer she stays, the less she can resist interrupting me during the day.  I can’t write in 15-20 minute chunks; more importantly, I can’t think in … Continue reading →

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Not Funny

Posted on August 21, 2014 by travelfoodandlife

This fire/fire extinguisher thing is killing my sense of humor.  If you’re on social media at all, you’ve probably seen the videos of people dumping buckets of ice water on themselves as part of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) ice … Continue reading →

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What I Asked for

Posted on August 18, 2014 by travelfoodandlife

I took a trip out of town for the weekend and decided to rebel a tiny bit and not bring a laptop with me. Strike a blow for work-life balance, if you will. Except I forgot about Monday being a … Continue reading →

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Discouraged

Posted on August 14, 2014 by travelfoodandlife

My mother has been harassing me about why the matchmaker has been so quiet and how crying babies get milk (I’ve translated the Korean version of squeaky wheels getting oil) and how I need to be more aggressive with the … Continue reading →

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So Many Fires

Posted on August 11, 2014 by travelfoodandlife

It’s easy to get angry these days.  Somebody somewhere is doing something that flies in the face of what we think is common sense or constitutes justice.  I guess what I’m trying to say is that many things tempt me … Continue reading →

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More Fires

Posted on August 4, 2014 by travelfoodandlife

I’m losing my sense of humor.  A friend posted a video on Facebook that made me want to throw something at my computer.  In this video, a 42-year-old man stands in front of a whiteboard and teaches the viewer what … Continue reading →

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Fighting Fire

Posted on July 31, 2014 by travelfoodandlife

The media shitstorm that’s developed in the wake of the Ray Rice/domestic abuse/laughable penalty/Stephen A. Smith/”she provoked it” brouhaha has brought out the worst in many of us.  If you’ve been blessedly avoiding the news, here’s the summary. Ray Rice … Continue reading →

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Shock Therapy

Posted on July 28, 2014 by travelfoodandlife

I don’t hate my body.  Well, I don’t hate all of it.  I’ve made peace with my butt.  Like most people, I can identify and prioritize the places where I’d have surgery to fix my flaws if money were no … Continue reading →

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Matchmaker

Posted on July 25, 2014 by travelfoodandlife

Over the last fifteen years as my love life provided mediocre levels of satisfaction, multiple friends made the offer to manage it for me.  If I filled in the profile information and paid the money for the online dating service … Continue reading →

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Closure

Posted on July 7, 2014 by travelfoodandlife

New e-mail. Huh.  It’s from Mr. X.  Don’t read it.  You got an ugly and unclear but ultimately clean break.  If he hadn’t disappeared on you, you’d still be entangled with him, and he is not the one you’re supposed … Continue reading →

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