Cherri Ellis
Friday, September 10, 2010
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8/29/2010
Chance
A world away a dentist’s child takes a chance so another child can have one.
I love my dentist’s office—I have been a regular (probably not regular enough) since I was pregnant with my daughter who is now headed off to college in three days. I have sat in their reclining chairs throughout many eras in my life—as a pregnant woman with an abscessed
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| 8/29/2010 |
Chance A world away a dentist’s child takes a chance so another child can have one.
I love my dentist’s office—I have been a regular (probably not regular enough) since I was pregnant with my daughter who is now headed off to college in three days. I have sat in their reclining chairs
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| 8/3/2010 |
My Cheese Ball’s Excellent Adventure Bear in mind, this is not your standard issue cheese ball. It has made people bump heads at a party as they attempt to access its goodness simultaneously.
The next time your bill from Alabama Power comes, just pay it and shut up. Know why? Because, without Alabama Power, you are a caveman. You are a club wielding, head scratching, root eating Cro-Magnon.
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| 7/4/2010 |
Reality is in the Eye of the Beholder Reality TV is the new great equalizer. We are all represented in our human failings, so no one can make fun of anybody else.
If there is one class that you should be required to take in school, it is debate.
As opposed to AP Calculus, where you’re constantly trying to figure out useless things like the inverse tangent of
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| 5/31/2010 |
For What It’s Worth On this day as you accept your diploma, revel in your own sense of awesomeness. Realize that in some ways, at this moment, you are as smart as you will ever be.
I would like a word with the graduating class of 2010. Listen up, because I have been burdened with wisdom far greater than what is immediately apparent.
I would begin by saying to this group of
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| 5/1/2010 |
Embrace Your Mistakes “Computers have enabled people to make the most mistakes, with the possible exceptions of tequila and handguns.”
The other night, from the peaceful quiet of my kitchen, I managed to scare a few years off an old friend’s life. It’s funny, really, if you’re not the person dialing the police. My husband and daughter
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| 3/30/2010 |
The Uninvited Guest Whether faced with a rat or a cancer scare, remember what Christopher Robin told Winnie the Pooh: “Promise me you will always remember this: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
My girlfriend Lou laid the takeout sushi on the kitchen counter. We had just completed a bikram yoga class where they heat the room up to between 95 and 2000 degrees. The class is very challenging. First,
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| 3/1/2010 |
Award Season
The 52nd Grammy Awards were just televised, and I want to know who exactly to sue for making me listen to Taylor Swift sing live.
She is the reason why the studio recording software Auto Tune was created,
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| 2/1/2010 |
Join The Club Tiger's just become a team player.
Ah!!! It’s the season of love, and overpriced floral arrangements. Tiger Woods offered his estranged wife Elin $300 million to get out of the doghouse.
I know, I know—she was pretty miffed at the
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Cherri Ellis delivers creative services, be it commercial production, long form video, the printed word, or voiceover. Known for 3 years as Cherri Mason on the Mason and Dixon Morning Show on Classic Rock 99 and now Regional Creative Services Manager for Charter Media, she produces 30 second commercials and long form video, recently winning her 2nd National Cable Television Advertising Award. Last year she told the story of a different nonprofit each month in her column “The Caring City” for Birmingham magazine. Now 150 years old and fueled by boundless wisdom, Cherri believes that life is beautiful, love is divine, and laughter heals.