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March 23, 2019
Pro tips for the midlife woman
Welcome, all you young whippersnappers! Thank you for coming to today’s session, Pro Tips for the Midlife Woman! I’m sure you’re wondering just what the hell I’m talking about, as the notice said this session was Fifty Easy Cocktails With FREE Samples!, but that was only to get you in the door. Don’t bother trying to leave, …
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March 20, 2019
When They’re All Gone
I am entirely out of flonks. Flonk bereft. My field of flonks is not only barren, it is overfarmed and sown with salt; flonk dust is blowing in the wind.
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February 1, 2019
Five For Friday 2-1-2019
What I’m Reading Late last year, when I realized there was no way in hell I was going to get anywhere near my 2018 reading goal, I returned the library books gathering dust on my table. I swore I wouldn’t borrow any more until I read some of the ones I had here at home. …
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January 31, 2019
Polar Vortex 2: This Time It’s Personal
In a world…Where sanity and weather collide…Temperatures will fall…a heroine will rise….Now showing in Chicago…THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL. Five years after the last #$^@#$&^$%^* Polar Vortex, the sequel has been released upon an innocent populace. It is cold, damned cold. Today is the third snow day this week, which means 1) Jack will be making up days until …
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January 24, 2019
The Eagle Has Landed
Pick your battles. Not everything is worth the fight, and my god we still have so many ahead of us. This? Worth it.
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January 22, 2019
To everything there is a season
Nature has the right idea in winter. To everything there is a season, and winter is the season for rest. Hunker down, hibernate, recover from the autumn and gather strength for the spring.
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January 15, 2019
You chose WHAT as your Word of the Year?
I’ve chosen a word of the year since 2011. Some years have been more…ahem…successful than others, in having my mind follow the word.
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January 8, 2019
Fresh year, fresh start
So after 13 years of blogging, I find myself at a new place in life. It may reek of feet, stale food that is still on the plate you took to your room four days ago what is wrong with you I swear to GOD I'm gonna have words with your mother!, and Febreeze (yes, it's bottle of liquid chemicals, but for the love of being the only female in the house, can we lift a grateful HALLEFREAKINGLUJAH to the heavens above for Febreeze?), but it's calm(er) here. There are fewer tears, and those that do bre...
November 27, 2018
{2e Tuesday} Inside, Outside, Upside Down
I often wish I felt as confident as my professional head-shot portrays. I see that photo and think, “That woman’s got it together. She’s solid in her truth, knows her shit, and I want to be her.” Ironically, only one of those three statements is true, and even that one flickers in and out like a …
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November 1, 2018
On the first day of NaNoWriMo my true love gave to me
If it’s the first day of November, it’s the first day of NaNoWriMo and writers around the world are swinging between exhilaration and sheer panic. I’m not so much swinging as spinning between the two like an out of control Tilt-A-Whirl, complete with dizziness and rising nausea. Good times, good times. Yep, I’m committed to …
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