Some days it feels like I’m getting “pitched” by PR people in droves. Five emails in a day, all addressed to… “Ms. Stephanie Wetzel, Blogger, The Red Clay Diaries.” My favorites say something in their opening paragraph to “personalize” the pitch. Of course, it’s hard to feel like they know me when their opening is, [...]

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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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I don’t enjoy Christian fiction. There. I said it. So why am I participating in a blog tour + giveaway + review of an overtly-Christian novel? Well, because I read it. And enjoyed it. Before I even received the book for review, the tag line had intrigued me: “She’d leave her husband…if she could find [...]

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Mother’s Day at church: Corsages, applause, sappy songs, a sermon exhorting men to love their wives and kids to honor their moms… Or… If you attend 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville, Georgia… This…

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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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Sittin in a noisy Starbucks, listening to the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack on my earbuds. (Jai ho!!!!) Trying not to get up and dance. And thinking that then again, maybe a little dancing would do me good, what with the accidental exercise it would involve. But then I’d have to explain my silent Bollywood moves to [...]

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Yes, another video post. Please forgive me, but it WAS Super Bowl Sunday. One of my favorite commercials came early in the game: Who knew Abe Vigoda was still alive? (According to SOME on the Twitter, he made a second appearance during the halftime show. But I’m pretty sure it wasn’t him. I think he [...]

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For your Saturday enjoyment: OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo. Note: One continuous take. When I found out it was the same guys who did the Treadmill Video (at the end of the linked post), I wasn’t surprised at all.

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As a child of the 80s, I have a special place in my heart for the movie Back to the Future. Michael J Fox? Cutie. 80s wardrobe? Laughable. Crispin Glover? Creepy even then… Anyway, recently my friend Bridget (the same Bridget who hosted the AMAZING blog carnival on Peace yesterday check it out over thirty [...]

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Lately it seems like my neck has a crick in it all the time. Not one of those “I can’t move my head and therefore have an excuse for not doing laundry or dusting” cricks. (I WISH.) More of a “This is annoying and every time I turn my head I sound like a bowl of Rice [...]

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