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  Voting Makes Me Hungry ***Updated

  11.04.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  There’s nothing like standing in line for 5 seconds, filling out a provisional ballot form, and then snapping some pictures of goofy kids at the polls to make you crave a hamburger and fries, and a Coke. Unfortunately, it was only 10:23 am, and McDonalds doesn’t turn the hashbrown-makers into fry vats until 10:30. But, [...]

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  I just don’t feel like I should have to deal with that

  10.27.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Truer words, Dick. Sometimes a phrase spoken in haste and frustration is worth a thousand pictures. “I just don’t feel like I should have to deal with that” is what Dick said when, to cap off a pretty crappy weekend, Spot pooped in the tub on Sunday morning. He had reasons. Oh, did he have [...]

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  If it’s free, exactly how much would that be worth?

  05.16.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  The Curse of the Critic I’m completely blocked. Uneasy stomach, guilty headache. And I can’t write. Serves me right, right? I read an interesting post at Scribbit yesterday that made me feel defensive. In describing her product review philosophy, she wrote, “I don’t like writing posts that blast a product out of the water–seems a [...]

• commentary, politics

  Hillesha, Baracook, and McArchuleta

  05.14.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Did you vote? I hope so, because tonight at 8 pm, the results of this most protracted primary runoff season will be announced and America will be down to the two major candidates. Will it be Hillesha vs. McArchuleta or Baracook vs. McArchuleta? Will anyone suggest that Hillesha and Baracook combine forces to battle McArchuleta? [...]

• commentary, freakonomics, sex

  If it looks like an apple but tastes like an orange

  04.04.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  The Freakonomics blog, which I read religiously, had another edition of “Ask a . . .” today. Their Ask a sex worker series after the Spitzer debacle was fascinating. Now they bring us a searing interrogation of five college women. Who’s paying for your education? How do you and your friends view smoking cigarettes? Do [...]

• commentary, food, motherhood, works for me

  WFMW: Plan, prepare, organize. Then, embrace the chaos

  02.13.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  I love to-do lists. Goals, plans, schedules. My running buddy and I plan to exercise every weekday at the same time. I say I’ll start the dishwasher every night and shine my sink (thanks FlyLady). We go to school and church and dance class like clockwork. Before each school year, I map out our day [...]

• commentary, fashion, honesty, humor, money, Sally, Susan

  Fashion sense, and a giving heart

  02.11.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  I wore my new (from-a-clothes-swap-my-sister-went-to) puffy vest today, since it was only half a Siberia outside. I love the colors and I love vests, and fake fur is just so fun yet PETA-friendly. Susan said, You got your life jacket on, Mommy? Well, that’s fine. Turns out the high collar was really annoying anyway. Then [...]

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