To be known by my name
As a young girl, I hated my name. I believed my name Monica too grown up and ladylike; not at all the name befitting my tomboy lifestyle. My Irish twin brother, a mere 362 days older than I, couldn’t pronounce my name. As a toddler he could manage the middle “nic” sound okay; but all [...]
February 2, 2009
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Monica Brand · 
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Tags: me, more than you need to know, motherhood, things I want to remember · Posted in: Living, True confessions
The creative writing class looks good
Somehow I’ve managed to get myself on the right (or wrong?) mailing list, because every now and then, I get these tempting brochures from New York University. Oh. My. Delicious. Not that it’s going to happen. I’m over an hour from The City and there are way more important things we need to spend our [...]
January 22, 2009
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Tags: me · Posted in: Thinking, True confessions
I would call it Zeke Cam
How much fun would it be to have one of these? Oh, to document my galloping adventures! Oh, the insane fun YouTube videos I would create! (And it would force me to tolerate a helmet. Protected head – good. Bump on head – bad.) What say you, Santa? Help a girl out this Christmas, okay?
December 5, 2008
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Tags: fun, me, more than you need to know, video · Posted in: Silly stuff
Zeke and I
Guess what I did today? Sorry for the washed out image, but I just had to share, like I’m a proud mama showing off her baby. This is my Zeke. Okay, truthfully he’s only mine for the two hour rental. But it sort of counts, right? Don’t let his laid back apprearance fool you. My [...]
November 29, 2008
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Tags: fun, me, more than you need to know · Posted in: Living
Cut me? I bleed coffee (No, I don’t know what monkey pee tastes like, just work with me here.)
We are serious coffee drinkers in this house. We buy green beans via the Internet, roasting them in this space-age looking contraption that sits on my kitchen counter, filling the house with an unmistakable smell that says, “Coffee lovers snobs live here.” I grew up on English breakfast tea with milk and sugar. My siblings [...]
October 27, 2008
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Tags: coffee, me, more than you need to know, the husband · Posted in: Believing, Living, True confessions
Much ado about nothing: thoughts on Twitter
I’m thinking of going on a Twitter fast. Most regular users of Twitter would agree with me, I’m sure: Twitter is a chat room and place to fish for new blog readers. It’s fun to read what other people are doing and sharing as they go though their day, but it quickly becomes an Alice [...]
October 20, 2008
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Tags: me, more than you need to know, Twitter · Posted in: Internet culture, Thinking, True confessions
