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Friday miscellany that spilled over into Saturday

A hot cup of tea and some random thoughts to head into this long weekend. There is something so liberating, so absolutely and completely fucking amazing about cruising down the…

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How the meaning behind all of those ‘Words of Wisdom’ becomes clear once we are too old for it to truly matter. And stuff.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~ Sir Winston Churchill There are expressions that I have heard my whole life. Many of them you…

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I will have you know that I am an excellent speller. Automatic spell check is just a dick

I can spell. I promise, I can. I was never graded lower than 8/10 on Mrs. Ceni’s spelling tests in the third and fourth grades and my spell-tastic star only…

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Six simple steps to take after you quit trolling and scrolling Facebook

Okay. So. We’re taking break from Facebook (or Twitter or Snapchat or Instagram or whatever (anti-)social media floats your burrito. Argh. So what now? 1: Put down your phone, tablet…

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Is social media holding us hostage? Nope, not me. Bye, Felicia.

On the topic of social media, volumes have been written, discussed, debated, studied and meme’d. Until now, I have not taken the time to throw my thoughts on the subject…

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Have I been doing it wrong or are they doing it wrong? My world is upside down now. How do you do it? No, not that it.

One of the things that I enjoy about going over the border to the US is that it gives me the opportunity to tour through American grocery stores and snag…

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I’m no design diva or anything but, um, hello?

So, the other day, we took the smalls across the border to Buffalo to celebrate Mason’s 11th birthday. He loves going to Niagara Falls and checking out the Buffalo scene,…

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So, I marched to my own drummer, except it turns out that my drummer is an asshole with no sense of rhythm. Go figure, right?

Almost two weeks into 2015 I published a post listing my goals for the year. You can read that post here. This year, instead of a December wrap-up, I’m going…

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Are all ya’ll ready for the big day?

Because I most definitely do not feel ready. But I think that I may be ready. I think that my lists and obsessive scurrying and hurrying and scrubbing and cleaning…

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I over-write far too often. Or I use too many words. Or something like that. Shit.

I just caught myself doing it again. I’m not sure if it’s insecurity, anxiety or just stupidity, but I will write, for example, a blog post, and I will be…

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