Archive for January 2017
Realizing My Parents Were People Grew Me Up - Real Quick
I was sitting across from my Dad at the Bagel on Belden. The year was 1995. It was a Saturday, mid-morning and I was slightly hungover and forever grateful my Dad was paying for my tuna on rye with a whopping cup of coffee. I was 24, living in Boys town and met up with... Read more »
Knowing Obama's Farewell Address is Hours Away Gives Me Heavy Boots
Tonight, President Obama will give his farewell address. I, like many, feel a sense of loss and despair. Loss at the notion that someone I felt could lead and inspire with hope, intelligence and grace is leaving the Oval Office. Despair at the reality that the President Elect is happy to be known as a... Read more »
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Nina Vallone
Neen is a writer by night, a mostly adoring wife and a mom of teenagers by day (and night.) She's on a quest to write about what she talks about: life, love and the pursuit of getting up after falling, repeatedly. Her passion of learning to live a mindful life lead her to teaching mindfulness classes around town. While living in the burbs, she constantly peruses city real estate so that when the kids are off to college, she and hubs can haul ass back down to the city.
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