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• My name is Inigo Montoya

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  “I have been in the revenge business for so long, now that it is over, I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life.” – Inigio Montoya, The Princess Bride This weekend I heard an NPR interview with Mandy Patankin about his role as the swashbuckling Spaniard [...]
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• Rolling down a hill

  Few things are as unfettered as rolling down a hill. The best you can do in terms of control is tuck in your arms. Sounds escape. Shoes slide off. Small blades of dry grass embed themselves in your hair. Line up three people in a row and yell, “Go!” and [...]
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• Get Your Clicks: Lessons on great tweets from @washingtonpost coverage of the debates

  I liken a good tweet promoting content to a headline on a supermarket aisle tabloid: it gives you just enough to make you want more. Here’s a great example from the Washington Post from last night’s debate coverage. “Republicans were so pleased with Romney’s performance, that with 15 minutes to [...]
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• Don’t forget the dreams of the people around you

  This morning I was one of 400 or so colleagues sitting in an auditorium on the 12th floor of a Park Avenue office building… shivering.  It wasn’t the temperature in the room or even the fall air outside that got us feeling a bit chilly. It was the description of [...]
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• Sick Day

  My son has a cold … again. I feel really sorry for him, with all the sniffling and blowing and constantly being asked “Have you washed your hands?” and told “Don’t get too close to your sister.” So, rather than sit at home all day and watch movies like we [...]
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• Workout Face

  It is not that I have anything against exercise.  In graduate school, after my car died, I rode my bike everywhere for two years. In Miami. But aside from those two years, and an award for being Most Dedicated on the Stone Mountain High School swim team my freshman year, [...]
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• Eat Clean

  At the end of this post I will be bravely sharing the before photos from my first-ever session with a personal trainer this morning. If you’re anything like me, you’re a sucker for before and after photos, so don’t look. Please? Save them for the end? Good. You haven’t peeked [...]
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• Performance Review

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  “Math. I’m really good at Math. Can you write that down, Mommy?” It was 8:15 this morning, 45 minutes before Elisio’s parent-teacher conference, and I was going over the sheet of pre-conference questions in the car with him to get his input into what we should say. “Is there anything [...]
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• The Leap Project

  Last year was a big one for me personally and professionally – new job, new house, new baby. It was so big, in fact, that I’ve taken the first month of 2012 to reflect on it before deciding just how to begin. How should I spend this first year of [...]
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• (fore)closure

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  There are more than a few things I wish I’d rescued before my father lost the house. The red wagon we careened down a too-steep driveway in. The purple tricycle I more often treated like a scooter. The J.C.-Penny-restored portrait of my great-great grandfather, who fought on the losing side [...]
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