Wednesday, December 16, 2009

My theory of friendship

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I'm not going to write a lot of detail here, just start talking about something I've thought for a long time. There's a mytholo...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Old City Kites is an Awesome Toy Store

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Posted by SaraSNichols at 12/15/2009 10:33 PM PST on The Sacramento Bee Old City Kites at 1017 Front Street in Old Sacramento is really an ...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

Five Snouts up for Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth

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(:)(:)(:)(:)(:) for Unaccustomed Earth , a collection of stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (A New York Times Book Review "best book of the year...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Want a cozy fire? Wait 'til next summer...

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Posted by SaraSNichols at 12/10/2009 8:40 PM PST on The Sacramento Bee I love wood fires. I love them in winter. I like them in my firepla...
Friday, December 04, 2009

Four Snouts up for Star Trek on DVD

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(:)(:)(:)(:) for Star Trek just out on DVD. I didn't get to see this movie on the big screen. My husband did and gave it uniformly pos...
Thursday, December 03, 2009

Great gift idea/One Place Business is Booming

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My brother in Oakland turned me onto this microloan organization called Kiva. I figured that by sending them a donation I was doing a good ...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

What's in a name?

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I am writing a final exam with a question about the basic precepts of Buddhism including the concept of Nirvana and I remembered this story ...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Gluten Free Store Booming in Midtown

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The Gluten Free Specialty Market in midtown on J street opened last year in the middle of the current economic restructuring and has continu...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

When we protect do we deprive?

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Today I walked with my almost 13-year-old daughter from our Southside Park neighborhood a few blocks to the Downtown Shopping Plaza to buy a...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Why am I blogging all of a sudden?

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The answer: I decided it was time. I used to blog daily. Then for a long time, largely because of my reactions to my son's extended i...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

How viable is K-8 in Sacramento Area Schools?

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Posted by SaraSNichols at 11/26/2009 4:25 PM PST on The Sacramento Bee For a while I've wondered how viable K-8 schools really are, and ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Whither the Wagon?

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Recently my husband and I shopped for a new (to us) vehicle. We wanted a recent model car that was reliable and got decent mileage for a fa...
Monday, November 23, 2009

Sacramento Opera is for the Masses (Only they don't know it yet...)

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Two things: 1) yesterday the Sacramento Bee Sunday paper printed the last NorCal blog I wrote on Local food, so check that out if you haven...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

How Loco for Local is Sacramento?

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Read my post on the Sacramento Bee NorCal Voices blog. I'm going to try to get back into routine blogging, I really am! BTW, attenti...
Friday, August 07, 2009

The Quest for the Perfect Wing

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Dateline: Buffalo, NY The conventional wisdom has it that Frank & Theresa's Anchor Bar in Buffalo not only invented the Buffalo ch...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

3 1/2 Snouts up for Bruno

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(:)(:)(:)(; Last night in a Buffalo cineplex as my daughter went to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince for the second time, I saw B...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Why isn't Sacramento Portland, Oregon?

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See my rare posting(makes me so much more sought after!) at Street Talk on the Sac bee website: Posted by SaraSNichols at 7/7/2009 3:43 PM P...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

How the Heck am I supposed to Vote on these Initiatives

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See my post on the Sacramento Street Talk blog.
Thursday, May 07, 2009

In time for Mother's Day: I'm America's Worst Mom

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See my latest post on the Sacramento Bee's Street Talk (my posts have been run twice in the Bee's Sunday opinion section). I'm...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

4 snouts up for Everlasting Moments

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(:)(:)(:)(:) snouts up for Everlasting Moments now playing at the Tower Theater in Sacramento. We really only went to this film tonight bec...