Author Archives: cheesefairy

Top 40 Music is Dead Like My Heart

Posted on 12/16/2009 by cheesefairy

I woke up miserable and just got miserabler. Turned on the radio and it’s all Olympic Preparations and International Olympic Committee Scolds YogaPant Company for being Smarter than Them and Police Clear Other Police of Wrongdoing and Our Government is … Continue reading →

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To the Children, to Make Much of Their Dreams

Posted on 12/9/2009 by cheesefairy

Dear Trombone and Fresco, Last week I got an email from my former supervisor, offering me my job back for a year while my maternity leave replacement goes on maternity leave. (Office Chair of Procreative DoomPanic strikes again.) It was … Continue reading →

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Happy Hybrid Holidays!

Posted on 12/7/2009 by cheesefairy

Just in case you find explaining to your small children such contentious (and lengthy!) topics as Christmas Mania and Holidays With Presents vs. Holidays Without Presents and Mythical Figures that Some People Believe in But Others Don’t just a bit … Continue reading →

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A Fleeting Thought, Pinned

Posted on 12/4/2009 by cheesefairy

Sometimes I say things to my children and I am stunned, simply stunned, by my hypocrisy. “Be nice to people,” I say. “Everybody makes mistakes.” “I don’t like that voice.” I am the grown up. It falls to me to … Continue reading →

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The Story of Christmas Elmo

Posted on 12/1/2009 by cheesefairy

The year Trombone was born, SA’s aunt sent us a singing, drumming Christmas Elmo. Wow, is it ever. Everything you’re thinking right now, it really is all of those things. Piercingly loud. Very red. Battery life like you wouldn’t believe. … Continue reading →

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