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Selling My Crap on eBay, Day 7: Globes! Globes! Globes! (black edition)

September 22, 2010

This is Day 7 of a 21-day series. For more scoop on the who/what/why, go here. For more detail on the whole, freaky globe-fixation thing, go here. In terms of value, this is hands-down the crÃ¨me de la crÃ¨me of the globe collection I’m currently selling off. Black globes are rarer than their blueish counterparts, [...]

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Selling My Crap on eBay, Day 6: Globes! Globes! Globes! (regular edition)

September 21, 2010

This is Day 6 of a 21-day series. For more scoop on the who/what/why, go here. For more detail on the whole, freaky globe-fixation thing, go here. If you’re a traditionalist, today’s installment in the globe pantheon might be for you. This particular globe was purchased from a vendor at the legendary Kane County Flea [...]

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Selling My Crap on eBay, Day 5: Globes! Globes! Globes! (big-ass edition)

September 20, 2010

This is Day 5 of a 21-day series. For more scoop on the who/what/why, go here. My move from New York City back to Chicago in 1986 marked the beginning of the end of many things for me: the belief, held firmly in my heart since I was 16, that I would marry the man [...]

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Selling My Crap on eBay, Day 4: #$@% Mobile Me!

September 17, 2010

This is Day 4 of a 21-day series. For more scoop on the who/what/why, go here. You read the calendar reminder you remembered to set for yourself a year ago: your subscription to MobileMe, nÃ©e “dot-Mac,” is due for renewal. You think about what else you could do with $99; you think about how much [...]

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Selling My Crap on eBay, Day 3: At your (mid-century) service!

September 16, 2010

This is Day 3 of a 21-day series. For more scoop on the who/what/why, go here. In the grand tradition of one’s blessing being one’s curse, I am my grandparents’ granddaughter. And my grandparents were fabulous, make no mistake. Stylish? Check. Worldly? Check and check. Self-effacing sense of humor? That would be a check, please. [...]

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Selling My Crap on eBay, Day 2: Basketball Jones

September 15, 2010

This is Day 2 of a 21-day series. For more scoop on the who/what/why, go here. Many moons, much heartache and tens of thousands of annual dollars-per-year ago, I was a thriving ad hole. Or “ad ho,” if you like. Or television copywriter, if you roll Mad Men-style. I wrote ads for automobiles! I wrote [...]

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Selling My Crap on eBay: a 21-Day Saluteâ„¢

September 14, 2010

Way, way back in 2000-01, a guy named John Freyer sold (almost) all of his worldly possessions on eBay. As described on the site dedicated to the project, a site which, along with everything else, he ultimately divested himself of, he did it more as a social experiment than a money-making venture, to “[explore] our relationship [...]

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Countdown to 5-0

September 13, 2010

My friend Josh, whom I’ve known for an it-seems-like-impossible 29 years, has pointed out that I perhaps speak overmuch of my age. And he may be right. While I’m all about leading with the truth for the best of reasons, in this case, keeping the twin evils of ageism and misogyny front and center, I’m [...]

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Poetry Thursday: I will hold you in my arms like a puppy

September 9, 2010

Is it all too much? It is, I can see, and so can you, on a good day when you are well-rested well-fed focused on something you love unfocused enough to feel at one with The Love. Please, do not worry. Or do, if you must. A shift of something in the air in your [...]

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