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Sep.02.2008
It was December the last time I visited my middle school. I had a doctor's appointment a block away. It was the end of the semester and I was out of my mind tired. I had just survived a terrible class, a class I had to leave at the end of the semester because I believed that if I...
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Sep.01.2008
Okay Gentle Readers. Yes, I'm doing two political blogs in a row, but here's why. Amy Goodman was arrested yesterday. For what? Doing her job.
For those of you that don't know who Amy Goodman is, let me tell you about her. Seven years ago after 9/11 there were times I just didn't want...
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Sep.01.2008
Sheesh! You take a couple of days off, and a lot of stuff happens. Let's get caught up.
Yes Gentle Readers, history was made with the second vice presidential woman candidate named Sarah Palin. It didn't take me long to get irritated with a lot of what they said in the...
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Aug.28.2008
It's too hot to think, Gentle Readers, so I'm taking Labor Day weekend off to loaf, write, and see movies.
However, I can't forget that tonight-no matter which party you belong to-history was made. And it was freaking great.
Keep cool.
Speech to the Young : Speech to the Progress-Toward...
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Aug.28.2008
Mackenzie Phillips is back in the news, and not in a good way. Now just in case you might have a life and do not know who Mackenzie Phillips is, let me tell you about her.
1973 marked the debut of American Graffiti, the movie that started George Lucas' career. There's one scene when...
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Aug.27.2008
I helped my friend Lilly-Marie move yesterday. Mostly it was just helping her carrying in boxes,but as a person who has moved four times in ten years, you need all the people you can get, you know?After we did unpacking we went to dinner. We were planning on going to Oscar's, this great hamburger...
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Aug.27.2008
It's an exciting week here in my house! That's because it's the Democratic National Convention! Where for one week you can be proud you are a Democrat! Yes, that one week when you can believe that anything is possible-people will get health care jobs, all thanks to the democrats. Ah...
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Aug.25.2008
I've been suffering from the end of summer blues. I always forget I get sad during August, so when it hits me I think oh God, what's going on? Then I look at the calendar. It's Labor day coming up. I see that comic caricature of Jerry Lewis plugging the Labor Day telethon. Remember when the...
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Aug.22.2008
I have always liked Michael Moore. When I saw Roger and Me when I was seventeen, I was amazed by how smart, funny and sad it was. I loved his TV show TV Nation and when he came to Berkeley, I went to hear him read twice and I have two signed books by him. I agree with a lot he says.
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Aug.21.2008
Lately my ego has been in overdrive. Just full overdrive, out of control. It started when I found out I won the grand prize at RedRoom, plus the Summer Reading Experience contest. Then I found out I won a contest sponsored by my local library; I read more books than anyone in Lafayette! Whoo-hoo...
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Aug.20.2008
So I'm finally uploading pictures of Ida B, kitten extraordiare. Check my gallery under "Summer 2008"
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Aug.20.2008
A friend e-mailed me an article about Lynn Johnston. If you don't remember my blog from a month back, Johnston is the artist behind For Better or For Worse, which is kinda sorta making an end soon. I better explain.
Johnston was set to retire after twenty-nine years of doing the strip...
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Aug.19.2008
Yesterday I explored the ups and downs of community colleges. Today I would like to talk about four-year college. Yes, four-year college! See the ivy on the walls? Professors smoking pipes and chatting about that Chaucer seminar they are going to teach this semester? Me neither.
Now...
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Aug.18.2008
Today I want to talk about college. I've been a college graduate for two years now, and I know that maybe some people who are reading this might be going back to school, thinking about it, or have a child going to college. Let me tell you what I know. I am also including community colleges here as...
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Aug.16.2008
I know I said I wasn't going to blog this weekend, however a big event is happening today. It's pretty big, gentle readers. Madonna is fifty. Yes, nifty fifty! What I want to know is, how did that happen?
Madonna has been around for so long-half my life. Well longer than...
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About Jennifer
Jennifer Gibbons lives in Lafayette, California. She is the grand prize winner of the Red Room Housewarming contest and one of the winners of the Summer Reading Experience Contest. She is working on a young adult novel and a book of essays.
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Causes Jennifer Gibbons Supports
Gilda's Club, Greenpeace, Rosie's Broadway Kids,Westwind Foster Family Agency, Amber Brown Fund, Linda Duncan Fund for Contra Costa Libraries
Jennifer’s Favorite Books
p>To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
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