True Spirit On Select Items

This is the first year I’ve fully embraced Online Christmas Shopping. In years past I got a few things on the Internet but I was still mostly clinging to the stubborn Twentieth Century notion of traveling corporeally to places of consumerist torment. Now, however, I’m fully converted to the new religion of Buy It At [...]

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Skiing

While leaving a comment over at Aunt B’s blog it occurred to me that what I do is not so much taking dictation as it is waterskiing. Wordskiing? How many times can I type the word “skiing” before it starts to look normal and not like a mistake? After a certain point–sometimes 5 minutes, other [...]

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I Promised I Wouldn’t Go Here…So, Ooops

I don’t like to get involved in the War On Christmas because I really don’t generally think it’s a thing. Well, it’s a thing to the guy who wants to sell his book about how there’s a War On Christmas. In that way, the War On Christmas is a lot like Y2K or the Japanese [...]

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Really, Amazon? REALLY?

Yes, this does fall under the category of First World Problems. I know that. I choose to point it out anyway. My newest baby/toy/gadget has arrived. You know how those commercials say “Every Kiss Begins with Kay”? The implication seems to be that if you really want to get some sugar from your woman, you [...]

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There Is A Limit

The other day I complained about one of my blog peeves–posts ending in questions that are clearly designed to drive comments. Another of my blog annoyances would be posts that ramble on forever, either saying not much of anything or saying the same thing over and over. Many good writers are not good editors. Many [...]

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School Lunch

According to the various posts my friends throw up on Facebook, we Americans are fat because –we are too stupid to understand the concept of “nutrition” –there is a conspiracy helmed by someone called Big Soda, who is an even larger, scarier bogeyman than Big Tobacco –Corn has transplanted “love of money” as the actual [...]

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So My PayPal Was Hacked…

I still am not quite sure how this happened. Last week my husband sent me a really nice email (not being sarcastic here…it was nice) saying that he didn’t care if I did but did I by any chance charge $40 to our PayPal account for some internet game called Minespawn or something about Mines. [...]

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The Pies Have Been Chosen

I was asking tongue-in-cheek last week, but since I dragged y’all into my pie quandary I figured you deserved a resolution. This week I will make at least 3 pies. Pumpkin almost doesn’t count because it’s a given. And I’m making it in the worst way possible–with canned pumpkin. In a nod to my homeland [...]

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Blue Book Blogging

This blog is going on eight years old. Eight. (That probably explains why I’m prone to giggle at the Ford Super Duty ads.) In all those years I’ve learned a lot about blogging. Most of it from messing up on my own, but some of it from watching others gaffe off. There are boring blog [...]

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A Compendium Of Reviews

How lazy could I get? None. None more lazy. I had to write up several reviews for Goodreads and I had to write a blog post. And then a light came on and I said “by golly! Why don’t I just copy the reviews here?!?” In truth, though, I’d been meaning to talk about these [...]

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