Umm, hi. Yeah, it’s me. I know, it’s been awhile. But I’ve been a little preoccupied lately. See, we’re in the process of buying a new house. And it’s hard to blog when all you can think about is where you’re going to get boxes, and will this couch fit on THAT wall, and what [...]

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This year the pigeons inexplicably came out ahead. As you might know, I’ve been blogging consistently for two and a half years. And in all that time, one search term has always produced the most traffic for my blog. Until 2010. Back in 2008, I wrote about my childhood family’s Doberman dog, and his deep [...]

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Did you miss me? Did you even notice that I was gone? (According to my lovely friend Wendy, my absence was basically UN-marked.) Yes, it’s been a week since my last post. I’ve been in Philadelphia for a conference, and every day after 14 hours of information, I just didn’t have enough brainpower to blog. [...]

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Originally posted March 19, 2009 Reposted today because … I’m behind on laundry… Why, hello. Just checking in. What have I been up to? Oh, nothing much… Just a bit of laundry. Five or ten or 75 loads, give or take a few. I’ve spent my last few days on a suds-powered hamster wheel: gather, [...]

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So I guess it’s about time for me to publish a post again. With my new “schedule” (i.e. no schedule) for work, blogging keeps getting bumped down the priority list. And every post that does get published begins to sound the same. Almost like I’m using a template or fill-in-the-blank form. Hmm. I may have [...]

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HOW long has it been since my last post? It feels like my summer has been kidnapped. Which is why I found this site so entertaining: The Ransom Note Generator. Simply type in the text of your ransom note, and it’s magically converted into your generic everyday disgruntled loner magazine letter script. Take a look [...]

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Sometimes when too much time passes between my writing sessions, the creativity builds up like magma under an Icelandic volcano with an unpronounceable name. Then a day comes along when the creativity magma blasts a hole in the glacier of housework that I’m supposed to be doing, shooting shards of crazy into the atmosphere over [...]

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Okay, so today I was gonna participate in a “serious” blog carnival hosted by a really cool British expat pastor guy named Peter Pollock. I like what he writes; it always makes you think. Anyway, his carnival today has a topic that everyone is supposed to write about: Obedience. Watch your step. The irony is [...]

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Do you know what a “meme” is? I had a rough idea of what it means in the blogging world. But for the sake of thorough research, I looked it up in Wikipedia. My head exploded. No seriously. Read just the first paragraph: A meme (pronounced /?mi?m/, rhyming with “cream”[1]) is a postulated unit or [...]

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