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Funemployment: Wide Open Spaces


As I mentioned in my last blog, I have quit my job for looooooove. How romantic. :) To celebrate this, and the idea of love in general (my grandparents 50th year anniversary of being married and not killing each other),... Continue Reading →

Smartphones. Hrm.


Does your phone affect your relationships? Choose: Huh? What was the question? Someone @replied me on Twitter just now. My phone makes my relationships stronger because it adds more streams of communication and helps me stay in closer touch with... Continue Reading →

My Rules for Life.


Rule number 1: When a friend gets engaged, congratulate them, buy yourself flowers and wine. Salute to love. Rule number 2: Pick a color that is your favorite color. It's kind of like your spirit animal. Mine is yellow. Always... Continue Reading →

A Time Capsule of the Year


I've kept a diary most of my life, the last few year's have been a public one on this blog and others. I don't know if it's the new Pinterest habit that's gotten me thinking so craftily, but I thought... Continue Reading →

29 – Birthday Reflections


Another birthday has come and gone...I entered the last year of my twenties struggling to wake up in a hotel room in a casino. That sounds much more exciting than the reality, which is that I was waking up at... Continue Reading →

(Not) Leaving on a Jetplane


I had a fear of flying for many years. We didn't fly a lot when I was younger, and once I was almost left in an airport on the Washington DC trip (buying Cheetos as a snack when the plane... Continue Reading →

VS Panties War: Dear Parents – What?!?


This will tick people off. But. As anti-corporation, cynical, Christian and "good" as I can be, as someone who works with youth of all ages, I've got to say something. No doubt by now you've seen something about the backlash... Continue Reading →

15 Things I want to do. Right. Now.


 Eat a pint of Ben and Jerry's Half-Baked Fro Yo. By myself. And not feel guilty. Or calories. Take a long, hot, bubbly, boozy, bookish bath with my bestie Jane Austen. Have a slumber party with my best friends like... Continue Reading →

Hear Here in the New Year (308)


It's funny to think that man made up time. The way we organize it makes no sense - 60 seconds in a minute, 60 of those in an hour, 24 of those in a day, 7 of those in a... Continue Reading →

TeacherDiaries: How to give a good gift at Christmas (because I really can’t eat another cookie)


You know the scene - it's Christmas time (or "holiday tree time) and you want to show appreciation to your child's teacher. You want it to involve your child, be meaningful, maybe even fun. You want it to be cheap.... Continue Reading →

Top 10 Ways the Technology is Sucking Out My Soul (and probably yours, too) (301)


10. GPS - I have a love/hate relationship with GPS. I remember fondly the days of getting the swim team roster and pulling out the Thomas Brothers mapbook, looking up the addresses of all the cute boys. I miss feeling my... Continue Reading →

It’s a Saturday night (296)


this morning I checked my stats, just chilling on my phone, checking me stats as I went pee (what kind of world do we live in where I take my cell phone to go pee? like i might get bored... Continue Reading →

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