Category: Family
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The Sixth of July (aka 36 Years and Counting)
Thirty-six years ago today, at 9:20am, I showed up in the hospital as a brand new, bouncing baby boy crying my eyes out because the lights in the delivery room were too bright and people were holding me by my ankles while I dripped with birthing stuff and my mother cried with joy that I…
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Walking for Pancreatic Cancer Research
This morning I participated in the first annual NYC Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk, part of the Lustgarten Foundation‘s fundraising program in the battle against pancreatic cancer. It was a frigid morning in NYC but the crowd of roughly 1,400 people was eager and ready to go. It seemed that everyone participating had lost or is…
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Help Cure Pancreatic Cancer – Call For Donations
I signed up to participate in the NYC Pancreatic Cancer Research walk on April 3rd and have created a donor page in honor of my mother and grandfather. Both were taken from this world by pancreatic cancer and frankly, it pisses me off and I want to see this disease eradicated before it can hurt…
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How the Christmas Tree Stand Nearly Ruined Christmas
‘Twas two weeks before Christmas when all through the house My mother was flustered and starting to grouse “Where the hell is the stand for this dag-nabbit tree? We had it last year so where could it be?” The fresh tree had come from the vendor in town But stood propped in a corner causing…
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>The Unwieldiness of the Water Bra
> No, I didn’t run into trouble personally with a water bra. While getting ready for work this morning I was watching an episode of Will & Grace. In it Grace gets a call from a former love interest who she thinks is calling because he saw a photo of her in the paper… and said…
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Celebrating the end of Prop 8 with "The Birdcage"
Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, The Birdcage Tonight, in celebration of the overturning of Prop 8 in California, Mike, Ren and I sat down and watched The Birdcage again… Back in 1996 when The Birdcage came out I was in my second semester of my junior year of college (well, year 3 of 5 anyway)…
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>"I guess this is goodbye old pal, you’ve been a perfect friend"
> Sondheim’s lyrics can appear to unaffected as just words on a page or phrases trilling out of some person’s mouth. But these lyrics, sung by Jack of Beanstalk fame in Into the Woods, are ringing over and over in my head after the passing of little Izzy on Wednesday. Izzy was both saved and…
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The Gym vs. Roseanne
Lying on the couch today I was thrilled to fall into a Roseanne marathon on Oxygen (the other Lifetime). I missed a lot of Roseanne when it was on originally, seeing the first few seasons but then losing track of it as the family grew and eventually won the lottery (did you see that final season… what?)…
Tommy Karr 