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blogging
Making Works-For-Me Wednesday Work For You (Or, Sex Sells Even WFMW)
10.21.08 | Permalink | 22 CommentsThe Well-Rounded Woman and I talk blogging a lot. Often we talk about how to make the Works-For-We Wednesday carnival work for us. We’re totally jealous that Shannon created the carnival, because if even ten other people sit on her site like we often do on a fine Tuesday night, boy! is she racking up [...]
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things that must go
Things That Must Go: In Support of Democracy and Progress, and the Land of the Free Giveaway!
07.31.08 | Permalink | 11 CommentsWow. Remind me not to hook up to the Bloggy Giveaways Carnival next quarter. Unless a few more of you fine giveaway hoppers actually subscribe to my feed (or by email), and agree to bear a fourth child for me. Because there were 661 entries, I decided to do a poll and let you pick [...]
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Makes-Me-Smile Monday
Random Acts of Blogginess
05.01.08 | Permalink | Comments OffMarianne from Writer-Mommy has won the Free Publicity for Your Blog giveaway, which means that a button linking to her wonderful site will be residing on my sidebar momentarily. Marianne was chosen in completely random fashion: Do you know how many times you have to ‘generate’ for the random number generator to pick the number [...]
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recipes
The Best Bars in Salt Lake City
05.01.08 | Permalink | 13 CommentsThat title is a bit misleading. Only a few of these are bars. The rest are cookies. Randi at i have to say is holding her monthly Recipe Box Swap, on bars and cookies. I recently posted my favorite-of-all-time cookies, so I thought I’d do a recap of my favorite bars and cookies and some [...]
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Dick, Makes-Me-Smile Monday, marriage
Makes-Me-Smile Monday: To love or not to love
I know almost to the minute when the word divorce stopped being a concept and became a possibility, a reality, a real thing in real life that could be devastating. Oh, not for me. Dick and I fought like pole cats the first couple months of our marriage, ten years ago. We fought about the [...]
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carnivals, Family, giveaway, Makes-Me-Smile Monday
Makes-Me-Smile Monday: Some Kind of Wonderful
04.06.08 | Permalink | 14 CommentsThere 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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blogging, carnivals, giveaway, Makes-Me-Smile Monday
A Giveaway, A Giveaway! My Kingdom for a Giveaway!
04.03.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsOr, 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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