I’m feeling rather poetic today. Why? Maybe it’s the view outside my kitchen window: Thin lavender clouds, strewn like tattered throw rugs along a pale horizon. (Is “throw rug” ever a poetic phrase?) Or it might be the song that’s stuck in my head: Trousers loosed, Abandoned to battle gravity – beltless. Imprudent-seeming, you Speed their [...]

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What? Don’t get the obscure “3-2-1 Penguins!” reference? Listen, it’s Spring Break here. Between the feeding and the cleaning and the fighting and the entertaining and the furniture scaling, I’ve had virtually no time to even look at the computer. Then today (Tuesday) all my colleagues at Fellowship of the Traveling Smarty Pants decided that [...]

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Today’s post started out as an American Idol recap, since I’ve never done one before and it sounded fun. (And because, gee, NOBODY else is posting about Idol online…) So I started writing my observations about the performers last night in the order in which they sang. Matt: Swoon-worthy singing. Paul: Great performance. Wife who [...]

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