Yep, that slack-jawed yokel is my Beloved Husband, in character as an extra for a short film, The Candy Shop. What? You didn’t know he was an actor? Well, he’s not really. I mean, he had dreams of being one. He even did some community theatre before we met. But he’s never seriously pursued it. And [...]

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Today I’m sitting in my bed, but not because I’m sick. Actually I’m hiding. Listening to Snow Patrol and trying to write. From down the hall and through my locked door, I can hear what I’m hiding from. After exhausting every option for manipulating Mom into entertaining them, my kids have finally decided to go [...]

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A riddle for you: What do you get when you combine the end of school, a dumb workbook deadline, (Oops, I mean “a workbook deadline imposed by my Beloved that is a blessing because it brings in some much-needed income”), …and my Beloved’s 50th birthday? Ready for the answer? An absentee blogger. (Or yet ANOTHER [...]

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Okay, I really wasn’t gonna post a video today, but … a. My husband is home, and he selfishly wants me to pay attention to him instead of to my writing; and b. I watched this video, and it is TOO AMAZING not to share. So there you go. This is the kind of thing [...]

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What’s new with me lately? Tuesday night Charlie picked up our wonderful friend Simon at the airport. Simon’s from England, and apparently he controls the weather. Because last month they had record-breaking snow there. And only three days after his arrival, we had – But first, let me tell you about one day later: Wednesday [...]

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Okay, so this is me on a Thursday morning. Waiting for snow… I mean “SNOW” …that forecasters predict to arrive this afternoon. Or perhaps this evening. Or more likely, next YEAR. But I’m not bitter. Even if my friends in ENGLAND have more snow right now than we’ve ever gotten, well, EVER. Credit: NEODAAS/University of [...]

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Hello to the Little People. I hope you are having a adequate time with your puny little lives. Me? But of course I am relaxing in a posh hotel room in Manhattan, the greatest city in the wohld. I have been here only a few hours, but already I am feeling posh and fabulously wealthy. [...]

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Actual conversation today between Charlie and me: Charlie enters kitchen from his office. I shout to him from the living room: “Your last tweet was on my account.” “That means YOUR account is on my Tweetdeck on my iPhone,” he replies. “Well, YEAH. It WAS on there before you let me get my OWN iPhone. [...]

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Happy Saturday! Last night’s slumber party report: Fun was had by all, the craft looked like it was gonna be a #FAIL but SuperMom worked it out at the end, we remembered the cake and presents, my daughters only fought 3 times, and everyone was quiet before MIDNIGHT. I deem it a SUCCESS. The following [...]

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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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