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Great-Great Grandmama Olene would be so proud (maybe)
01.13.09 | Permalink | 12 Comments

I really have no idea if Grandmama Olene was crafty. I do know that she joined the Mormon church in Norway with her husband Andrew. They came across the plains to settle in Utah, but they didn’t stay long. Perhaps it was the cushy locomotive transportation then available rather than the soul-refining hardships of the [...]
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Confessions of a Martha
11.25.08 | Permalink | 13 Comments

In high school, Melinda and I petitioned the guidance counselor to waive our vocational class requirement. AP chemistry and biology should count, we said, because they are vocational if you’re delusional enough in your youth to assume that of course you’ll become a doctor. And how lame would it be to have to take Foods [...]
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Poor Mother Hubbard
10.30.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

Yesterday I came home to find Dick emptying the dishwasher. He’d been pushed that far by an exchange we’d had over Twitter. (Twitter = Communication = Great for Marriage).
Dick: My left wrist feels like someone ran over it with a car, but I have no recollection of any injury to it.
Jane: @Dick Hope it wasn’t [...]
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WFMW: Real Tips! Microwaves, Snopes, and Diet Coke Bombs!
09.23.08 | Permalink | 26 Comments

I hesitated to post this tip, because I am probably the last person on earth to know about it. But I finally tried this method of cleaning my microwave, and IT WORKS! (Thanks Mom; it wasn’t that I didn’t believe you. It just sounded too easy).
If your microwave looks like, say, this:
[Oh, I give up. [...]
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Man Laundry
05.27.08 | Permalink | 20 Comments

Like the Man Cold, Man Laundry is similar to Woman Laundry, yet inexplicable in execution. Why can’t a man do laundry like a woman?
It’s not a matter of intelligence, of course. Dick went to graduate school at an Ivy League Institution, but really that is nothing compared to the fact that last night he cleaned [...]