Pop Music Failure (or, A Step in the Wrong Direction)

I am declaring an impromptu Domestic Violence awareness moment. We apparently need it. Whoa. Stop. Time Out. Did M just lay that one out there? Yes, yes I did. This is ignited by pop music. It’s all over the radio right now, so something must be going on, right? In the middle of the afternoon [...]

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A Lost Cause (or, Food Junkie)

I’m a foodie. Not quite in the Julia Child-lust-after-butter fashion (although, real butter a better cookie make), but enough that my palette isn’t pleased unless I can present it with varied flavors fairly regularly. It’s not uncommon for me to grab foodie friends from work and head out for chicken tawook, lamb saagwala, pad thai, [...]

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The Art of Fabulous (or, Listen to Your Mother)

I couldn’t imagine a more appropriate day to contemplate this than the international premier of Sex and the City 2: being fabulous. For more than a decade, Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte brought chic style; girlfriend fun; passion, romance and love as well as heartache, breakups, and challenges; and (of course) spectacular shoes to us [...]

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The Country Girl’s Workout (or, Body by Wheelbarrow)

I’m a farm girl. Or, if you prefer, a country girl. Either way, manual labor is part of life. (Remember “The Simple Life”?) Well, I finally figured out how to make productive use of my “chores” (because feeding the horses, pruning the trees, and stacking the hay bales aren’t productive activities around the farm). With [...]

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Breeding (or, Draining the Gene Pool)

The last few weeks have been relatively serious. And this one really could be a serious topic, but it probably is going to come off a bit more comical than contemplative. Breeding. It’s part of living. 1 + 1 = 1. And in really sticky cases, 1 + 1 = 2 or 3 or 4.  [...]

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