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Recycling Bikes and Building Pride

Recycling Bikes and Building Pride

My friend took me to the awesomest place to buy a bike today. I’d been hoping to get the kid a new bike. The old one was her first bike, far beneath her now especially in its purple and pink. So since last year’s adventures with my bike informed me that I didn’t know half […]

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Sheets and Sabotage

Sheets and Sabotage

When I was little, I had a big, glorious bed. It was at least full-size, maybe even king. It was a huge expanse of comfy blankets and flat, empty space to play, dotted by the occasional stuffed animal friend. It was beautiful, too, with a hardwood headboard and awesome posts at the bottom like in Bedknobs and Broomsticks only made of wood. It was an antique–it had been my great-grandmother’s.

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DUCK!

DUCK!

I think the first video game I ever played was the one that came with our first computer. I don’t recall the name of it. It was a space-flying game, and you were supposed to use warp speed or some such to dart about the galaxy defending your bases from the bad guys. Generally I

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For the Bishies!

For the Bishies!

So it’s been a rough summer. The expectation that my income would go down by 25% led to a lot of stress, not to mention a lot of scrimping. Practice, I told the child. Let’s see if we can live on our new income before it’s our income. The answer being no led to more

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Important Career Decision? Ask teh Internets!

Important Career Decision? Ask teh Internets!

Oh great cats and wandering humans of the intertubes, what shall I do? Though I plan to make a Great and Thoughtful post with an Official Announcement at some point, I’m pretty sure I’ve already mentioned once or twice that I have decided to self-publish Taro and see what happens. You may imagine this decision

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All or Nothing Again

All or Nothing Again

Latest high-fructose corn syrup study generates buzz, debate – CNN.com. (CNN) — Acolytes of “Food Rules” guru Michael Pollan and other well-meaning foodies who’ve made corn a scapegoat for the nation’s health crises have welcomed a new study from Princeton University that suggests high-fructose corn syrup causes more significant weight gain than table sugar. But

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Beware of Falling Objects

Beware of Falling Objects

And you know. Mess. Difficulties. Blasted ugly layouts. It’s time for some changes around here, and I’m not going to do it all at once. That way lies madness. Not to mention I don’t really know what I’m doing yet. ๐Ÿ™„ So, uhh…feel free to complain if things get too bad. Poke me if something

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