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November 4, 2015
My mad NaNoWriMo procrastination skillz
So we’re well into NaNo now, and while I am making my daily word goals, there will inevitably come a time when ye olde words refuse to come out and play. I don’t have the time these days to sit and bang my head against the desk (plus previous head+desk adventures have left the top …
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November 2, 2015
What a difference a year makes
I was sitting and thinking the other day (dangerous, I know) about change, and justhow much change we’ve seen here the last few years. And for the first time, I wasn’t angry about it. I just sat with it, and was amazed that we survived the events of the last five years. Sometimes I really …
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October 26, 2015
From annoying to absurd
The other day I had to buy printer ink. I tend to run the printer dry, get pissy that printouts have all the color saturation of glass, and eventually make the trek for replacements. After shelling out the cost of a fancy dinner, I posted this to my Facebook wall: (Thanks to my friend Elizabeth …
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October 20, 2015
2e Tuesday: Homeschooling through crippling self-doubt
We are a comparative society. From the moment our kids areborn they’reranked in some way against others. APGAR scores, height and weight, when theysleep through the night, are they gaining weight, how early they potty train, when they talk, when they learn to read. There’s even more of that in school, in work, in everything, …
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October 19, 2015
NaNoWay!
Just when Ithink I can’t go any further ’round the bend or even more batshit crazy, I outdo myself. In the midst of building my flute studio and homeschooling and blogging and maybe putting together a presentation for SENG 2016 and hooboy we’rehow close to Christmas and managing the House of Chaos and shoveling out …
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October 9, 2015
Another 25 Things I Want My Sons to Know
My dear boys, I realized I had more to tell you.Hunker down at my feet, young ones, and feed on my wisdom. Remember that every person you meet, nice ones and mean ones and pretty ones and plainones and every color of the rainbow ones,every person was once someone’s baby. So when that person is …
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October 2, 2015
25 Things I Want My Sons To Know
Boys, you’re at an age when you should start learning some things from your parents that may not have been covered previously. Yes, we’ve made sure you were potty trained before school and that seatbelts are non-negotiable, but sometimes the details get missed. So, before I succumb to old age and further child-related memory loss, …
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September 25, 2015
A real pain in the neck
I sprained my neck. Oh, I’m sure I could call it something slightly less embarrassing, like aneck tweak orstiff and sore muscles, but it’s waypast that. It’s a sprain. In my neck. There are usually two reactions to such a strange ailment. The first is a grimace of pained sympathy. An offer of ibuprofen or …
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September 24, 2015
Living with a teenage troll, the sequel
Give me strength. I mean, for chrissakes, it was my birthday. And, on the 42ndanniversaryof my entrance onto this planet, I spent a huge amount of time in the car, driving Andy to and from a birthday party a million miles away. And how does my beloved firstborn son thank his long-suffering mother, on her …
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September 23, 2015
Life, the Universe, and Everything
Today is the day, a day I’ve been looking forward to for years. The day when I’ll learn the meaning to Life, the Universe, and Everything. I know where my towel isand I am ready. Today I am 42. Never mind that I have a neck so stiff that it’s making me queasy. Never mind …
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