Christmas Dogs 2008
Helpful votes received on reviews:
80% (492 of 613)
Location: Los Angeles
In My Own Words:
I'm a 47 year old lawyer, living in Los Angeles with my boyfriend of 18 years, our dogs Zack and Springfield, and the ghosts of dog Oliver and our cat, Bob.
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On its surface, Running on Empty is about Marshall Ulrich's run across the United States. But in a more important sense, the book is hardly about running at all. It is about the struggles and emotional growth of a man whose first wife died of cancer at about 30 years old, shortly after the birth of their first child. Ulrich originally takes up running to literally and figuratively "run away" from his very substantial troubles. Ultimately, however, Ulrich learns to deal with -- "accept" is probably too strong a word -- what happened to him early in life, and his relationship to running, his friends, and family all change for the better. Despite the tragedy, the book is ultimately… Read more
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
This watch was great while it worked but . . . the heart rate monitor stopped working in less than six months. Garmin then gave me the run-around. After I bought my own replacement strap -- $50, didn't help -- the finally agreed to replace the watch, but they insisted that they be allowed to charge my credit card for the cost of the watch -- $155 -- which they promised to return upon receipt of my old watch. They then charged my credit card $329, and, when they got the old watch back, refunded $173. At that point, they stopped communicating altogether. I spent hours trying to deal with issue, and in the end, would have been better off just buying a new watch. Again, the product… Read more
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Someone clearly put a lot of time into creating the Rosetta Stone program. The production values are pretty good. But, the purpose of the program is to learn Japanese, and the amount of Japanese you can learn from all three programs is very limited. Better to spend the money on covering more material, and skip the bells and whistles. In my estimation, all three programs are insufficient to equal even one full year of college Japanese. I'm not saying that the program is bad, just that it is limited in the amount of material covered. Perhaps my expectations were too high, but given the shockingly high price, I think I had a right to have those kinds of expectations. I would have… Read more
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