posted by Kristin | filed under Family | 5 Comments

There are no valuable antiques passed down from generation to generation in my family. There never were any antiques - valuable or otherwise - to be passed.
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My father’s parents were middle class and flush with the practicality that comes from being one generation removed from farmers and cotton mill workers. While I […]

posted by Kristin | filed under Extracurricular | 5 Comments

I’ve always thought it would be fun to spend a whole day at the movies - to smuggle in candy and eat popcorn for lunch and see movie after fresh, new movie with just enough time in between to have a quick-and-dirty discussion of the one you just saw.
Now that it’s holiday movie time […]

posted by Kristin | filed under Shopping Disease | 7 Comments

There’s nothing like the biggest shopping holiday of the year to give a recovering shop-a-holic a serious relapse. So many sales, soooooo many sales! And it’s practically REQUIRED that I shop for others, and in so doing, I end up shopping for myself, too. It has felt delicious giving in to the shopping urge, […]