I’m the Idiot Trying to Diet During the Holidays
I am trying to lose weight during the holiday season. This may just be the stupidest idea anyone’s ever had in the history of ideas, and I’m not THAT prone to hyperbole (only one in every…
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Author: The Olive Gal
green of skin, black of heart
Italian Mother Guilt
Ahhh, holidays. Tis the season for a deluge of Italian Mother Guilt™. Don’t get me wrong, Italian Mother Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving year-long. But the holidays inspire a particularly persistent flow of…
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We ALMOST Won Powerball Last Night
For the 30-grumble-grumble years I have been alive, I have known my father to purchase some kind of lottery/scratch/Powerball ticket just about every single day. Dad is so invested in this insane dream of someday coming…
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Italians: The Mexicans of White People
My husband once told me that Italians are the Mexicans of white people. He’s allowed to say this because he’s Mexican. The truth is, there are quite a few similarities between his family and mine, which…
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