A Gadget I’d Love

One of the reasons I fell in love with my house is that the two tub/shower combo units have these privacy windows over them. That way you can get some natural light in while you shower, assuming of course that you’re showing during the day. Since my inner two year old still loves shiny glass [...]

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The Miley Cyrus Picture

Folks are up in arms because they think it’s too sexy. I hadn’t seen it until late last night, and I have to say I find it jarring. Not because the picture makes her look sexy. I’m used to seeing Miley Cyrus look sexy. Don’t know what I mean? Google “Hannah Montana” and you’ll be [...]

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BSG: A Wink, A Nod & A Nudge

I both love this show and lose patience with it. In that way it makes me feel almost like I’m the parent of a 14-year-old. Lately we’ve been in a particularly adolescent patch of episodes. Remember how it was to be 14 and think you know better than everyone else and that the whole world [...]

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Kindergarten Teachers Are Professionals

I know several teachers personally; more than I can count with two hands. Thankfully due to good teachers in my past, I’m able to count them in my head–without using my fingers, toes or (non-existent) penis, as the old blackjack joke goes*. I also personally know several doctors, attorneys, and other people who are what [...]

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The Harry Potter Lawsuit

There’s much speculation going on about the current lawsuit between J.K. Rowling and RDR Publishing about the Lexicon. My newsgroups are all of a sudden full of folks who’ve never before bothered to read the Fair Use clause and are now trying to practice law over the internet. (Since that’s a favourite pastime of my [...]

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My Email Is Screwed

“Why didn’t you answer my email?” About a month ago my husband started coming home and saying this on a regular basis. He’d send me two or three emails a day that I didn’t get. I called Comcast and they saw nothing wrong on their end, so I assumed it had something to do with [...]

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Bruce And Patti Don’t Live Around Here

My brother’s son plays T-ball, and one of the coaches in his local Little League group (group? team? franchise?) is the man I once wanted to marry. Of course, I was really young then and hadn’t seen much of the world. But I loved that guy in my own fifteen year old way. One time [...]

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Grandma’s Cooking

My mother called me the other day. Or maybe I called her. I can’t remember. Anyway…one of the other inmates at my grandmother’s Senior Assisted Living Center publishes a newsletter. (Katherine , meet yourself in 40 years…) The Newsletter lady asked my mother and aunt to write a tribute piece to my grandmother. Both Mom [...]

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Go To London To Visit The Harry Potter Rare Book

Amazon’s throwing a contest. The winner gets to go to London for a weekend wherein they will get a chance to visit the priceless Tales of Beedle The Bard purchased by Amazon at auction. Open to muggles ages 13 and older in 24 countries, the Beedle the Bard Ballad Writing Contest challenges you to creatively [...]

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On Grumpiness

Slarti has a project going, wherein he rates the general grumpiness of blogs. Leaving aside that any such rating systems are subjective–what constitutes “grumpy” or “negative”–it makes me think back on my own long career with cantankerous writing. Blogging serves several purposes for me, and over the years the various roles it has played in [...]

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