It’s Twitter Ho-Down Time! (Also known as Post-that-requires-no-thinking-since-my-brain-is-swollen-shut Time!) If you’re not on the Twitter, you’ve missed some of my cleverest stuff – if I do say so myself. We wouldn’t want that, so without further ado, My week in 140-character bursts: (As usual, reading from the bottom up makes a LITTLE more sense.) *** [...]

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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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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, sort, wash, dry, fold, hang, put away, gather, sort, etc. Sort of a [...]

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You might have noticed that I haven’t been around much in the past few days. Didn’t notice? Well, it’s a good thing I don’t get some sick self-esteem boost from having your approval, or I’d be REALLY bummed. {sniff} Anyway, I have been a little AWOL. I’ve had to skip personal responses to my blog [...]

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yESTERDAY THIS IS HOW MY COMPUTER WAS TYPING> nO MATTER WHAT i DID< I COULDN”T FIX IT> tOTALLY DROVE ME CRAZY< SO I DID WHAT EVERY COMPUTER DUMMY DOES: I REBOOTED> Okay, I’ve gotta stop that if I want you to keep reading. Anyway, I rebooted, but it didn’t fix the problem. So I did [...]

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Riddle me this: What’s white on white and wet all over? . . . . A 200-pound Snow Angel! . Charlie made this during the Great Georgia Snowstorm on Sunday, March 1, 2009 . For more Wordless Wednesday, visit

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Dear Google Maps, z 578 7m777qzzCd! Erm, excuse the interruption. That was my 14-month-old nephew’s contribution to this letter. Although if I wanted to express in code the words I was shouting muttering in my truck last night as I got thoroughly lost in downtown Atlanta, “z 578 7m777qzzCd” is as good a translation as [...]

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I did warn you. This post  is what you get when I stay up till midnight surfing the blogosphere. Thursday night, my friend Katdish of Hey Look a Chicken fame linked to a blog I’d never visited before, Chronicles of Marnia. (Hi Marni!) So when I visited Katdish around 11:30, I clicked over to Marni… [...]

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Mmmmmm, coffee. If you brew coffee at home, who sets up the coffee pot? In our house, that person is me. It makes sense: I get up first. And I’m the morning person, so I’m the most alert when making it. And it’s a great (and pretty painless) way for me to practice selflessness first [...]

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Wow, on Saturday I had an unplanned “blog fast.” It happened when my sister and brother-in-law’s work shifts overlapped a little, and I agreed to watch my nephews for a few hours in the afternoon. I love my nephews, and my kids love their cousins. We always have a great time getting both families together [...]

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