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The Snowy Day Revised

by ascreamin, Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 1 comments

Author Ezra Jack Keats published his classic children's book the Snowy Day in 1962. It begins "One morning Peter work up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered...

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What Calliou Taught Me

by ascreamin, Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 2 comments

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Promoting geekiness

by ascreamin, Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 3 comments

My three year old son is obsessed with baseball. First it was trucks. Then tools. Now baseball. His obsession plays itself out in several ways. It's not just about playing the game, you see. But also...

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Perfect attendance...not me

Did anyone else read the story in the Washington Post about the girl, now 18, who hasn't missed a day of school since kindergarten? Amazing, I thought. Not just that she's never been more than...

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Mother's day poem

My mother, Carol, died of ovarian cancer in August 2002. She was 69 years old. That year after her death was the one and only time that poems came pouring out of me. Below is one that I wrote on that...

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If you can't beat 'em...

by ascreamin, Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 4 comments

No one has called in weeks. I know, because I’m keeping a list. In my mind. What has happened to my friend Lisa, for instance, from high school? She used to call me a few times a week, like a stalker...

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The importance of remembering

by ascreamin, Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 3 comments

So today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. I received an email, a chain letter of sorts, with a photograph of a baby’s hand resting on the arm of an elderly woman, the tiny fingers nearly touching the...

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Loss for Words

by ascreamin, Friday, April 17, 2009, 4 comments

It seems I’ve fallen off the ol’ blogging wagon recently. I’m not sure what happened; besides being busy, I just feel a loss for words. I hate when this happens. Especially after being overwhelmed...

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To Have Never Known Stress

by ascreamin, Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 6 comments

I met a woman today at the hospital where I work part time. She is 76 years old. i’ll call her Mary for this purpose. I had interviewed her over the phone for a story I was writing, about her amazing...

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Venting for a friend

by ascreamin, Thursday, March 26, 2009, 5 comments

I’m very angry right now for a friend of mine. A few months ago she left her job at a nonprofit organizations because her boss, a woman, was a tyrant. I supported her in that decision because I’ve...

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Before and After

by ascreamin, Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 2 comments

Before I do anything new, I tend to worry excessively. For instance: a recent invitation to go out to dinner with a bunch of moms in my town. I had wanted to meet more moms, and I had been...

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Having Reservations

by ascreamin, Sunday, March 22, 2009, 4 comments

It’s 11:07pm. Do you know where your father is? If you are from NY, this may sound familiar to you. There was a PSA that ran every night at 10pm on one of the local stations that asked a...

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Perspective column

by ascreamin, Monday, March 16, 2009, 6 comments

Yesterday I had a Perspective column in the Boston Globe Magazine. It was a thrill...finally breaking in after getting shot down a few times with my ideas for Coupling columns. I think I have a...

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Are these people trying to tell me something?

by ascreamin, Saturday, March 7, 2009, 2 comments

This morning I went to have my eyebrows waxed. Yes, I have hairy eyebrows, but that is not what this blog post is about. The moment I laid down on the table and shut my eyes, the esthetician said, “...

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A few thoughts about boys and monkeys

by ascreamin, Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 1 comments

Did you hear about the study regarding male monkeys and toy preference by researchers in Emory University's Department of Psychology? If not, here's a bit about it: We compared the interactions...

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About Me

Kids: Have young kid(s)

Name: Amy

Education: Too much!

Relationship Status: Married

Favorite Music: For mellowing out: James Taylor, Indigo Girls, John Mayer, Ray Charles and many more. For getting nostalgic: Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra, the Smithereens. For pumping up: Seventies disco.

Favorite Books and Writers: Anything by David Sedaris, but Naked is my favorite. Anything by Joan Didion, Abigial Thomas, Anne Lamott. Love essay collections - Bitch in the House is a good one. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (just finished it...was very good). This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolf. Memoir of a Geisha, Arthur Golden.

I am most proud of: It's a cliche, but my kids. On a related note, giving birth. Nother has ever given me more confidence than carrying and pushing babies out of my body. Runners up - completing a century ride around Lake Tahoe and raising more than $4,000 for the Leukemia Society; my best american essays notable mention in the Best American Essays 2007

I am most guilty of: Too much sarcasm. And tardiness.

The world would be a better place, if only: Women ruled the world.

Words I live by: Put on your big girl underpants and get over it. (in a card given to me by my sister after having my first child).

Homepage URL: www.yelinwords.com

My Website: www.yelinwords.com

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