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  And I wouldn’t care what anyone else thought of it

  11.30.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  And so it is done. Though there were months during my blogging honeymoon that I posted 40-50 times in thirty days, this month, this November, has just about quenched my desire to EXPRESS MYSELF. I know my youngest sister would find that hard to believe. Once Mary and Karen and I were driving along a [...]

• writing

  Not drinking enough, apparently

  11.29.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Today is the penultimate day of National Blog Posting Month, and it has been much more of an experience than I expected. An experience in the way that the week-long wilderness survival trip I went on as a senior in high school and the first few months after bringing a newborn home from the hospital [...]

• blogging, marriage

  My Better(-Paid) Half

  11.05.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  I’m often asked why I blog (WHY do you blog? Why do you blog? Why do you blog?). There are as many reasons to blog as there are people to blog. Basically, writing is good for you like exercise is good for you. It quickens the heart, focuses the mind, works the muscles, cleanses the [...]

• blogging

  I’d gaze at my navel, but have you seen that thing?

  08.07.08 | Permalink | 17 Comments

  {Back to HELP WANTED.} A few weeks ago my aunt and uncle unsubscribed from my blog’s email updates. Which is like saying “I think you suck, and your writing does too.” Ouch. But it was fine, because I’m a grown-up. Though I may have yelled at Susan to JUST EAT YOUR DING-DANG MACARONI when she [...]

• Jane, blogging, friends

  BlogHop ’08. (No, Mom, I don’t have any friends in real life) (Happy now?)

  07.19.08 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  A couple days ago, my only friend who lives near enough to swap babysitting with moved. We’d like to move too, but haven’t found the right house to buy. I’ve lived in at least 23 different places, and I confess sometimes I ignore my neighbors, because, well, they probably won’t be my neighbors for long. [...]

• writing

  My first guest gig: Afraid to Call Yourself a Writer (Me Too)

  06.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  So, I’ve gone over to the dark side of bloggy guest posting and such. After carnivals and a giveaway, it was only a matter of time. Please, for the love of everything holy, go comment on my poor little offering. Thanks! I’ll even close comments here so we can pretend that I’m stopping hordes of [...]

• church, writing

  Awkward, like Steve Carrell, only not as funny

  06.22.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  We went to the zoo today. My dad’s work was having their yearly ‘company picnic,’ complete with catered lunch and crafts for the kids. Dad dotes on his six grandkids. I know this is what grandparents are supposed to do, but he certainly didn’t dote on me (at least, not that I remember from my [...]

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