Cover or Hover

One must get to learn so many details when learning to be a grownup.  Like: people don’t like to be pointed at, it’s best to pick your battles with others, and if you are a female, USING PUBLIC TOILETS INVOLVES THOROUGH PREPARATION AND FOCUS. Years ago when my daughter used public restrooms, we used this [...]

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A Quarter To WTF

If ever there was a justification for a “Misc” or “Other” box on a form, I believe it is below.  Trying to set up PT has been a pain in the rump, b/c some people just won’t use their brain! The person at the office I’m working with: 1) keeps interrupting me 2) keeps calling [...]

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Mean macaques and such

During our snow day yesterday, we let our daughter pick the movie for us to watch together and guess what?  Netflix streams some pretty wretched kids’ movies.  Though The Adventures of Bailey: The Lost Puppy screamed “straight to video” to my husband and me, that was her enthusiastic choice.  Much of this film was long [...]

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Look ma – no hands

The other night I was knitting in the car, in the dark (I was not the one driving.) I have a long history of trying to do things with my eyes closed, in the dark, with my left hand, or in one case, with my feet – I brushed my teeth with my feet b/c [...]

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whispering sweet nothings

The other afternoon, my daughter said those sweet words every mother longs to hear: “Mama, the back of your skirt is tucked into your underwear.”

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“Awful Library Books”

Have you come across the Awful Library Books blog yet?  It is fantastic.  I can’t remember who I found it through – a link from the CraftyPod or Craft Magazine rss feeds maybe? Anyway, you must check it out. Not only are there superbly, well, awful books that the writers – who are librarians – [...]

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Tahini Weenie

Much as I love bright colors, I’m realizing I would be wise to start building a tahini color-only wardrobe (excepting, of course, the teeny weeny tahini bikini).  This is because I like tahini smeared liberally upon my lunch, and my snacks, and it is damn gloopy. So each day I end up with tahini speckles [...]

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Pancakes vs. the Renaissance

I was recently reading an article about whether the “Google-type” search engines, and fetching content online in general, is changing the way we seek and process information, and may be affecting our ability to do “deep reading”. This article warns that, “As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” . . [...]

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