Caped Persuader

I was on such a roll with my postings for awhile there!  I fully intended to keep it going, but I went to Cape May on Wednesday night with my family and my mom’s laptop was not able to get online as we’d hoped it would.  Apparently, she assumed she’d be able to steal wireless [...]

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Person, place and thing

I realized today that as much as I acted like my Monday night writing tragedy couldn’t be fodder for a blog post, I certainly managed to get 5 or 6 paragraphs out of it last night.
As I was writing my memoirs of my trip to Europe, I started to think about how so many visitors to [...]

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The writing gods assign me an essay test in Patience

In case anyone is keeping track at home, I do realize that I broke my promise yesterday of posting every day for 21 days.  However, a great writing tragedy befell me last night and I simply had no energy left to post. (Of course, it had to be a writing tragedy, as any other kind of tragedy would have [...]

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The days of wine and dozes

I’m fully in autumn mode at this point and the temperature needs to stay below 72 for the next five months or I’m going to start to get twitchy.  I am ready to curl up in my apartment with my favorite books and a big mug of cocoa and not have to feel guilty over wasting [...]

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Step into my office …

 
You have to love the Internet.  A quick search of “Fonzi + doll” led me straight to the kick-ass photo to the left.  If you look closely, you can see that Fonzi’s thumbs could flip up or down.  What you can’t see (unless you click here and scroll down…go ahead, you know you want to) [...]

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Grubby, fingerpainted memories of the way we were …

I always find myself wanting to call bullshit on people who claim to know what their first memory is.  I admit my reaction is a classic case of lashing out due to insecurity, because the whole topic makes me uncomfortable, as if I’m missing some fundamental piece of my own history because I don’t have a ready [...]

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Comfortzonesick

When I was a kid I was very prone to homesickness.  I don’t think it was the being away from home that upset me as much as it was the fear of the unknown that came with being out of my comfort zone.  The homesickness problems started when I began sleeping over at friends’ houses in second or [...]

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Does 2 posts tonight mean I don’t have to blog tomorrow?

F*** me dead I just opened mine eyes, and lo! I have not updated this since people stopped clapping and Tinkerbell died… You would not believe the amount of people that are totally stalking me. I hope they bring chocolate!
I am absolutely consumed with sleeping my way to the top, soaking in the tub, just [...]

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Fail big! Fail fast!

Over the past few weeks I keep running into the same philosophy of failure.  Everywhere I turn I hear people espousing the idea that failure is nothing to be ashamed of, that the learning that comes from it is more valuable than success.  I guess this is something I’ve heard since I was little, but [...]

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When did Ashlee get her old face back?

Last night at VMA

Okay, so I know I said I wasn’t going to dwell on this, but WTF?  I’m calling shenanigans on the whole thing, dammit!  In my mind this confirms my theory that the girl who was supposedly Ashlee Simpson in the middle photo was someone the family just hired to pose as her during a particularly [...]

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