I just so happen to have two adorable, hilarious, brilliant children. (In my humble opinion, of course.) They're 4 and 3, and for the last several years now, they've been pretty good kids, except for…
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another - Madonna And here we are, eh? The freelancing community has a knack for getting tied up in knots, literally, in our dependency…
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Ham versus SPAM (the 'food', not the unwanted emails). Cheddar versus Velveeta. Labradors versus Dachshunds. Mac versus Dell. (sorry, that one just slipped out) Do you see where I'm going with this? I just got…
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I have a scar on my knee from when I was five and fell off my bike. I have a scar on my left hip from my first chicken pock (a billion followed, but that…
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Last week, I went for one of the best runs I've ever, well, run. I was in Manhattan - and I just flew around the place. It was a mini-exploration that began when it was…
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When I was pregnant, I had a serious problem with smell. This wasn't completely out of the ordinary - other women get like this too, but it usually goes away after the first trimester. Mine…
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It's true that I spent the first 17 years of my life in a protected, little suburb in St. Louis, and that I was relatively shielded from urban life, or drama that extended beyond boyfriends,…
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Really, I am. I'm sending you elsewhere...(but just for a little field trip). Because today, I have a post that lives on a different blog. It's a little, teeny, tiny blog with oh, I don't…
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As some of you noticed and inquired about (very sweetly and privately via email), I had a couple of weeks there around the holidays where I was down, down, down. Not just in the dumps,…
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First there was hunting in the state forest, then there was snow on the paths in the state forest, so what did I do? I stood up for my rights as a rollerblader and I…
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Jumper Cables…
