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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Last spring, just before my mom joined us to be SuperNana for the summer, she told me she was ready for a new dog. We've always been a big dog family, and it had been…
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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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For a long time now, I haven't niche myself. I intuited, assumed and experienced the fact that the wider I cast my net, the greater the number of fish I could possibly, and did ultimately,…
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Rule #1: Always follow your instincts. I knew when I added that p.s. the other day that I should have deleted it and made it its own post. But did I listen? No. But now…
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I feel about New Year's the same way I've always felt about prom. Really, about most every night that's designated to be 'the best night ever.' Call me a cynic, but I think it's a…
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As a woman who loves to 'off-road' it - either walking with or running with her dogs, and as a woman that - like many 20 somethings (and early 30's in my case) - moved…
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To be clear, this might be the most shallow post I've ever written. Recently, I was asked to look through some writing samples that had been submitted by a wide range of people hoping to…
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Jumper Cables…
