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The long way home
In the end, I never did send my mom a message on Facebook to say that I was coming home; she would not have seen it anyhow, because she never ever logs on. But I did not e-mail her, either. Nor did I...
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Not too proud. No, sir (ma’am?).
I kind of love reading my horoscope but I only do it when I am home, because my parents get the local Athens newspaper and it’s just so easy to flip open to the crossword puzzle, fill in a few lines...
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How to be the popcorn princess (or prince) on your block
My friend, Ruth, invited me to a Christmas party last night. She’s the one I met through my friends Mindy & Jason in Bluffton, and who happened to also know Rennie’s foster mom from vet school....
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Please sign on the dotted line
I was supposed to be showing you a picture of Brenda Lee‘s signature right now. For at least the last 15 years, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” has been my most favorite Christmas carol ever, and...
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Rennie and I took a walk
The irony is I wanted to finish my tour of the Northeast before the snow there started, because I knew that Roxanne would struggle in such wintry conditions, plus I was a little unsure how Rennie would...
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Looking back on 2010
Everyone is doing it right now: year end reviews. It’s almost 2011, so all the newspapers and radio shows are doing recap specials in which they republish the best photos and articles of 2010, or they...
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This is where I came to spend a few mild winter months
I am still laughing at the fact that I had this great plan to come to Georgia for the harshest winter months, because oh, no, we NEVER get snow in Georgia. And I am snowed in again for the second time...
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Just as you were about to fall asleep in your chair
So, I have been listening to a lot of public radio lately. I mean: a lot. As in: I want to add 17 more hours to the day just for podcast listening. Naturally then, I have the delusional idea that...
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My insanely bad luck with animals
I guess it started when I was six. I wanted a kitten, so my family got two, one of which died inexplicably and the other of which ran away. I was ready to throw the towel in then. This owning a pet...
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Two and a half minutes of a six-minute egg, in three parts
“This egg is perfect.” “Six minutes was good?” “Yes.” A beat to chew. “They don’t call you a mom for nuthin’.” “Ha.” A beat. “I hate it when the white is still runny.” “Ew. No. That’s disgusting.”...
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Does it matter if mushrooms are threatening to choke me to death?
I had to laugh this morning when I got down to my Girl Cave at about 6:30 and noticed that the mushroom that has started growing through the floor (don’t ask; it’s too gross to get into and I am...
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How I went from mushroom grower to axle hunter to boomerang kid
I suppose there has been a small leap in narrative between my arrival home in early December and my prolonged parking job that has lasted till now, two months later. I therefore have the feeling that...
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Not having to have
I finished the detox or cleanse or whatever you want to call it. It was a fast, actually. A friend wrote me an e-mail the day that I announced I was going to stop eating for three days and only drink...
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Channeling Georgia O’Keeffe & Bill Bryson
For the past several mornings, my eyes have popped open at a few minutes till 5, no alarm clock needed, and Rennie, normally the Saturday-sleep-in-teenager, has started wandering out at a little past...
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Because I don’t have a gazillion dollars to pay the record labels
I know. It’s a podcast re-run already and I’ve only ever done six episodes. But I’m in Mexico doing paperwork and I have not had time to tape and edit a new episode, and so I am using the chance to...
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Wow. I guess I needed that trip.
In case you missed my tweet, my Facebook fan page and/or we’re not Facebook friends, I made it home from Mexico just fine. I got back to Athens last night at about midnight after catching a boat, a...
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Even dogs need sick days
I pretty much let Rennie take the reins on our walk this morning. And while I am still not sure what sets one blade of grass apart from another seemingly identical one, apparently there is a...
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Did you ever hear that one about the wine tasting?
Sorry, y’all. Another rerun. But here’s how I see it: I already released a new video this week, so that satisfies my weekly multimedia quotient (that I just invented for my convenience). Plus, you’re...
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Roxanne the bed-wetter & other crazy tales
My dad was the first one to play an April Fools joke this morning and it was so unexpected from him, that it made him, my mom and me practically roll around on the floor laughing for, like, five...
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