August 31, 2007
I want to be one of those women who marches into the doctor’s office with a notepad where she has faithfully recorded her ailments and their progression, so that the doctor can more quickly cut to the chase and diagnose her. To that end, I composed a list that includes the following: extremely painful swelling [...]
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August 29, 2007
Courtesy of Gary Larson The Sound of Music is one of my all-time favourite movies. I have loved it since I first saw it about twenty years ago. We were new to Canada and our family had become friends with another Nigerian family with four kids as well, two boys and two girls, just like [...]
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August 28, 2007
A conversation between my sister and I back in January. Eight months later nothing much has changed. You can tell we’re sisters because our conversation shows the classic hallmarks of a conversation between siblings, the 2 I’s of conversing with a sibling: insults and inside jokes. (We don’t actually add slashes to our conversation; I just [...]
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August 25, 2007
Putting the ‘happy’ in Happy Anniversary Dear Mom and Dad, Today you celebrate 31 years of married life, and I would like to congratulate you both on this accomplishment. First off, without the marriage that started it all off, my existence would probably not be a reality, and since I’m your only child that blogs, [...]
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