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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That’s riiiiiight! They’re gooooiiiiiiing BACK! In the early morning, before even the sun had risen, my alarm rang. After sleeping in all summer, I’d forgotten what it was like to wake up before dawn. And yet… I BOUNDED out of bed. I cheerfully awakened my children. I happily fed them breakfast and helped them pack [...]

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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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Wazzup? Today I was thinking of writing a post sharing what’s up (i.e. wazzup) in Red Clay Land. You know, like how the kids are home from school today so they had a sleepover in the living room last night and now at 2 pm they’re still in there playing with the air mattress electric pump. [...]

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Just in case you’ve been hiding under a rock… or are morally superior to me and my movie-loving TV-owning red meat-eating ilk, and didn’t know this, the Academy Awards were on Sunday night. And Twitter was all atwitter. (HA.) And on Monday, my life was transformed by the following video, courtesy of Charlie: A Trailer [...]

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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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Hello from Crankytown. Where the sky spit flurries, the children complained bitterly, and the school district helpfully allowed parents to travel icy roads this morning to schools that were still OPEN. I don’t know why I was so grumpy about the lack of real snow here. Even more puzzling: I was irritated with the county [...]

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