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New Things of the Week

05.16.2011

If you want to know what it’s like to spend some time in my head, you’ll get a sense of that here.

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Pretty, the second season

11.02.2010

Guilt-free sloshing in the barrel of kiddie beauty pageants with all the attendant political incorrectness you could ever hope for.

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Calling It Quits: the making of a movie

09.07.2010

I now had a character, that’s me. I had a premise, the search for happiness. And I had a character arc, unhappy to happy (or lets call a sense of well being). In short, I had my film. And I was off — with the enthusiasm of a kid.

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May 30: An Ode to My Dead on Decoration Day

05.30.2010

You should know from the outset that my tongue is planted firmly in my cheek.  This post will not mention the decorated dead of America’s many wars.  Not that they don’t deserve it, but, hey, this is an ode to my personal dead.

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MidLifeBloggers Jingle Dangle Earring Sweepstakes

02.26.2010

Do you like pretty things?  Do you like pretty, sparkly things?  Do you like pretty, sparkly things  that dangle gracefully from your earlobes?  Do you like these? Would you like to see them dangling gracefully from your earlobes?

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Pretty, the Series: A web mockumentary

01.29.2010

Late in the evening when there’s absolutely nothing else on, I have found myself on occasion watching Toddlers & Tiaras. It’s one of those train wreck reality shows in which overweight parents groom their small children to compete in obscure beauty pagents usually held in the Deep South. I feel guilty about watching it, at [...]

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A MidLifeBloggers Contest: Win a copy of Hormone Harmony

01.15.2010

I have had an unwilling absence from the internet.  My cable went out.  Yesterday.  Or maybe the night before while I slept.  Of course I didn’t know that when, perky as could be, I took my coffee into my office yesterday morning to read the papers on-line.  My perk faded pretty damned quick when I kept getting [...]

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Men Of A Certain Age versus Cougartown

01.05.2010

I watched Men of A Certain Age last night for the first time.  That may be because last night was the first night it was on.  Or maybe I’m just a late bloomer, being all involved with reality shows and the like.  I love, liked, and immediately bookmarked for future showing MOACA.  I even tweeted [...]

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Giveaway: Readers for those with Short-Arm Syndrome

12.11.2009

My mom developed a vision problem when I was a kid, and I remember that it really scared me. Her arms got too short to be able to look up numbers in the telephone book. The problem quickly got worse. Soon her arms weren’t long enough to read the newspaper and then books. Eventually she [...]

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Creative in the Kitchen? Win a trip to NYC!

12.03.2009

Julia Child doesn’t give a recipe for Puff Pastry in her almost-encyclopedic Mastering the Art of French Cooking.  Or rather, the recipe she gives is for the simple little piped (or flung from a spoon) blobs of dough that we know as cream puffs.  To get the Real Puff Pastry, the kind you roll out [...]

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