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  Free Publicity For Your Blog and a New Kind of Carnival

  04.23.08 | Permalink | 31 Comments

  I hope you diehard bloggers aren’t suffering massive finger fatigue from the Bloggy Giveaways Carnival. Or, if you are, I hope you at least win millions of good things. I don’t know if anyone will notice my little link here at the tail end, but what I’m offering is completely priceless: Free Publicity For Life [...]

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  Toni is a Winner, and I am nothing if not flexible

  04.08.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I generated a random number (why couldn’t I just write 8 numbers on slips of paper and draw them out of a hat? Well, then I wouldn’t have proof that this was a totally unbiased selection): And Toni is the WIN-NER! She gets TurboTax, Mother’s Day Loot, SEATTLE, a Fortune Cookie Kit!! Email me at [...]

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  Makes-Me-Smile Monday: Some Kind of Wonderful

  04.06.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  There are no secrets in my family. Well, there might be one or two, but I have no idea what they are. We talk about everything, especially meaty things some people consider indelicate, like politics and religion and sex and marriage and how do you enjoy raising your kids when they whine all the time? [...]

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  A Giveaway, A Giveaway! My Kingdom for a Giveaway!

  04.03.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Or, as the Freakonomists would say, some schwag. Monday, April 7th marks the second edition of the Makes-Me-Smile Monday Carnival this time around. While I was very happy with the quality of the participants last time, the quantity left something to be desired, and, as I said to my higher-minded friend Melinda, sometimes I admit [...]

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  Makes-Me-Smile Monday: The best of times, the worst of times

  03.30.08 | Permalink | 24 Comments

  I’ve been meaning to write this post since Christmas, when my mom asked Mary and me to write or say something to our 18-year-old sister Karen to reassure her that we do actually enjoy being mothers. I have been a mother for two-thirds of my adult life, so it’s hard for me to even remember [...]

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