Archive for August, 2011


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Dis-Orientation

Published Date: August 31st, 2011
Category: life

This evening we attended the incoming 6th grader orientation at My Kid’s new school. She’s starting a new school. She’s going to middle school. It was just a regular day, until we left the house and started walking toward the entrance to the subway to go to the school. I realized my heart was racing [...]

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Somebody’s Little Girls

Published Date: August 10th, 2011
Category: life

We were standing in line to buy gyros from the fair booth sponsored by the Greek Orthodox Church and the young people behind me were talking. The blonde girl said to the soldiers in fatigues: “I’d already signed the papers even before they came to talk to my parents.” She talked about her job at [...]