Today is Blog Action Day when about a gazillion bloggers take to their blogs to bring awareness to a certain topic that needs attention. This year, that topic is climate change. I could write a…
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Granted, I live in a place that is considered to be a vacation paradise. And granted, I used to feel that way when I didn't live here. And granted, I still do feel that way…
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Next to causing massive amounts of trouble, my favorite thing to do at camp every summer was sail. Every single day for two months throughout five summers, I sailed. Little sunfish, 15 foot X-boats, even…
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Disclaimer: I did not birth the term 'suck'. And, yes, I wish I had. Yesterday, I went to a friend's house to borrow a skirt, and she said, "We have to start with the shoes.…
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Do you have any words that you'd like obliterated? I'm all for axing 'cute'. Bunnies are cute. Puppies are cute. As Alisa from Project Happily Ever After says, "I think it's okay to use cute…
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I'm standing on the other side of the abyss, the good one. And I wanted to let you all know that the ground here is high and dry, nearly heady. Because I read your comments…
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Does anyone know who Michiko Kakutani is? If you do, you get a gold star for the day. Wear it loud and proud on your forehead. In my world (because she is bigger than this),…
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Late every August, just before school started, my mom would take me to the department store (Famous Barr, if you happen to be from St. Louis) to get my Back to School clothes. And I…
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“But, wasn’t it just luck?” Me, being obtuse. That was my absurd response to the fact that a man in Japan might recently have broken a 80 year old record by catching the largest large…
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When I was young, I went to summer camp. An amazing girl's camp in Northern Minnesota called Kamaji where I spent 8 weeks every summer for 9 years, first as a camper and then as…
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Jumper Cables…
