Entries from February 2020
Small Fry: A Memoir
is a very particular coming of age memoir, particular because it is by Steve Jobs’s first born child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, whose existence he had difficultly acknowledging. Reading the book, I felt myself transported to Ms. Brennan-Jobs’s Palo Alto world. I slunk down leafy sidewalks with her, rooting for her efforts to be independent of household turmoil, her mother serial dating and having trouble with household expenses, her father vacillating between support and abandonment. I shared her bafflement at her father’s frequent, punishing admonition: If you want to be part of this family, you’ll have to put in the time. I think, without realizing it, Steve Jobs was talking about himself. I wish Ms. Brennan-Jobs all the best.
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Tags: Books · Emotional Freedom · Non Fiction · Relationships
The easiest and most entertaining (alligators in swimming pools!) way to understand the financial crisis of 2008, is to watch the movie The Big Short
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It is a true story and covers the basics of how debt escalated into a financial explosion. It depicts our moral imperative to make money, to find the loopholes, to be the most wealthy–finance is a game! Read more... (551 words, 1 image, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)
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Tags: Money Matters · Movies Worth Watching · Non Fiction
A dark sleeping environment is one of the few suggestions from our sleep experts that seems to be relevant to me. There’s a street lamp right outside my bedroom window, so it’s hard to make the room dark. I need an eye mask–one that has room for my eyelashes! Read more... (57 words, 1 image, estimated 14 secs reading time)
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Tags: Claire's Favorite Products
Tags: Claire's Favorite Products
We’re trying the Icekap Migraine Cap
for our migraines and sinus headaches.
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Tags: Claire's Favorite Products
Claire's Original Art Greeting Cards
There is nothing that says I care like a real snail-mail greeting card!
Click on a picture above for a plain-paper printable greeting card pdf.
Print on regular 8.5 by 11 printer paper. Fold twice so that the art is on the front and the title and copyright are on the back.
Write your greeting on the inside.
Mail in an A2 Invitation Envelope.
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is a very particular coming of age memoir, particular because it is by Steve Jobs’s first born child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, whose existence he had difficultly acknowledging. Reading the book, I felt myself transported to Ms. Brennan-Jobs’s Palo Alto world. I slunk down leafy sidewalks with her, rooting for her efforts to be independent of household turmoil, her mother serial dating and having trouble with household expenses, her father vacillating between support and abandonment. I shared her bafflement at her father’s frequent, punishing admonition: If you want to be part of this family, you’ll have to put in the time. I think, without realizing it, Steve Jobs was talking about himself. I wish Ms. Brennan-Jobs all the best.
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for our migraines and sinus headaches.
