Like almost everyone’s these days, my birthday last Thursday began on Facebook. Greetings came in all day, pinging my phone over and over. Very heartwarming to see Happy Birthdays from so many people from my past and present. If Facebook is good for nothing else, it at least has increased the number of birthday greetings [...]

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“This is the first year that I can remember NOT wanting fall to arrive” -Charlie, the proud owner of a boat on a lake that’s getting progressively colder. It feels like the summer boating season ended abruptly last week. Suddenly, no one’s eager to go in the water because they know they’ll have to get [...]

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I have a bloggy friend named Joyce who writes at From This Side of the Pond.  I think we connected initially because of our shared love of the United Kingdom. Plus, she makes me laugh. For awhile now, Joyce has been hosting a blog carnival called Wednesday Hodgepodge. It’s kind of a celebration of randomness, [...]

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It was a strange week. Last Sunday night, after we got about six inches of snow, the school district cancelled school for Monday. Yay! Snow! So on Monday, Charlie and I took the kids to the field down the road. There they sledded and made snow angels and tromped around. By that time the snow [...]

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What I want to be doing right now is baking cookies, not writing. My creative muse appears to be hanging out in the pantry with the oatmeal and chocolate chips. But I’ve told her to wait so I can catch you up on the past week and a half. After all, it’s been too long [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving from the Land of the Rednecks! Hope you enjoy our annual tradition! Okay, not really. We ALWAYS make the kids take off their trucker hats when I bring in the KFC. And I try to finish my cigarette in the kitchen. *** Have a great day!

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There’s a science experiment that Charlie and I like to conduct every year around this time. We call it, “Study in Jack-o-Lantern Mold Formation and Decomposition.” Yesterday we concluded our study, coming to the conclusion that jack-o-lanterns do, in fact, grow mold. We also discovered that the addition of rain to the experiment yields an [...]

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Still. Sick. I wanted to come up with something HI-larious to write about Tuesday’s birthday celebration, but my brain’s just not operating at full capacity. Or, as anyone who was on the Twitter earlier today can tell you, I might possibly have used up all my wit and creativity in 140-character bursts. At any rate, [...]

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Yes, it’s about time for me to participate in this blog carnival again. I can always benefit from a little introspection. Here’s what I’ve learned this week: If you’re gonna bake two frozen pizzas, don’t put them directly on two racks, with one above the other. Cuz if you do, the top pizza will self-destruct [...]

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Mmmmmm, coffee. If you brew coffee at home, who sets up the coffee pot? In our house, that person is me. It makes sense: I get up first. And I’m the morning person, so I’m the most alert when making it. And it’s a great (and pretty painless) way for me to practice selflessness first [...]

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