Category Archives: Diet

Lactose Intolerance

Cancellers, Chubbies, and Pretenders: Trainers’ Nightmares

Posted on March 25, 2014 by sabasabas

      From time to time, I train other females in fitness workout routines geared to meet their specific goals. I don’t take many clients simply because my day job meets most of my financial needs, and no matter … Continue reading →

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I Click; Therefore, I am

Posted on January 21, 2014 by sabasabas

I’ve written about selfies before, but having returned recently from a trip to the Yucatan where photo ops were more prevalent than breakfast-nabbing coatimundis, I felt the need to lament the unfortunate trend of living one’s vacations through the graphic screen … Continue reading →

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People of Walmart: A Galvanizing Force of Nature

Posted on November 1, 2013 by sabasabas

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/61162/wisecracks/   Since a Walmart recently moved into my central Tucson neighborhood after handily defeating the neighborhood association and its weak little legal team, I recently became aware of Walmart as a driving social force. Approaching the gargantuan, intimidating building … Continue reading →

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Trick or Treat: A Paradox

Posted on October 30, 2013 by sabasabas

  Sometimes an issue jumps out at me like a teenager in a Miley Cyrus twerking costume. The letter above was written by a fed-up “villager” from Fargo who is so concerned about the childhood obesity epidemic that she claims … Continue reading →

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Obamacare Slouches Toward Bethlehem

Posted on October 28, 2013 by sabasabas

  I have been solidly-insured for most of my adult life, except during those fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants college years when we are all truly invincible. As I grew into adulthood and assumed responsibility for my life, health insurance was one of the … Continue reading →

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  As my students gear up to read The Great Gatsby, I was looking for a hook this morning to help them understand the sociocultural norms of the 20s, and particularly the distinguishing characteristics of class and upbringing. Nick, the … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 1, 2013 by sabasabas | Leave a comment

Declaration of Dependence

Posted on September 18, 2013 by sabasabas

  As a public high school teacher, it’s difficult to blog about the state of education in Arizona without sounding like a whiner. After all, we are privileged enough to work with young people who are caring, talented, and enthusiastic … Continue reading →

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Proud to Work

Posted on September 9, 2013 by sabasabas

I was rocking my yard yesterday, and by that I don’t mean I was head-banging and playing air guitar, although to say I’ve never done that would be a lie. I was unloading and spreading a truckload of DG rock … Continue reading →

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Barbie Era

Posted on September 4, 2013 by sabasabas

Today, my students wrote about beauty. They’d been reading John Donne’s elegies, several of which are satirical poems which form a literary antithesis to Shakespeare’s sonnets. They are, in fact, hilarious: “Such are the sweat drops of my mistres’ breast, … Continue reading →

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A Big Arriba For Nogales, Mexico

Posted on August 15, 2013 by sabasabas

  As a longtime Tucsonan, let me enumerate (or emunerate) five compelling reasons to head South, cross the border, and patronize our border city, Nogales, Sonora. Yes, little Timmy, the Nogales that’s in Mexico. One of the many reasons I … Continue reading →

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