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Show & Tell: Captured

February 7, 2009

Last week I showed my documentarian tendencies. When Tessa was born, my friend Juli (scrapbooker extraordinaire) gave me a beautiful handmade calendar that she designed especially for my daughter. So it seemed natural that I would add my kids’ journal entries to my nightly routine. Call it a.nal-retentive, obsessive or rigid (as my husband jokingly [...]

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Show & Tell: Documentarian

February 1, 2009

Subtitle: why blogging comes naturally to me. My profiles on Facebook and Mile High Mamas say “Blogging in my head since 1980.” Which isn’t the whole truth. Yes, I’ve been blogging in my head, but I’ve also been journaling on paper. On my mngm-teenth birthday in late 1979, my dear Aunt D gave me a [...]

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Show & Tell: These are a few of my favorite things

January 25, 2009

…all mixed together. My love for Weird Al and the Brady Bunch are legendary. I also love this tune by the one-hit-wonders, Men Without Hats (remember them?) Follow-up to my last week’s Show & Tell. Yes, Mr Roads could have been more encouraging of my (very) latent artistic talent. I should have made more clearly [...]

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Show & Tell: Cityscape

January 18, 2009

Mr Roads gave me a C in Art in 7th grade. Ba$tard. Being an otherwise straight-A student, I took this as a personal affront. It stung so much that I decided I had no artistic talent and I would never again put myself in the position of being judged in this arena (perhaps I am [...]

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Show & Tell: The Energizer Yoda

January 11, 2009

While Melissa‘s humble nature may not allow her to pump her soon-to-be-published book, I can do so shamelessly. She may not be able to feature my New Years’ Day post in Roundup or in the Lost & Found, but I don’t think she can stop me from reposting it for the Show & Tell audience. [...]

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Show & Tell: If Reed had a blog

December 20, 2008

Subtitle: what do you get when you put Weird Al Yankovic in a blender with Star Wars, American Pie, the Kinks, and a transgendered person ? I asked Reed what he would put on a blog if he had one. Here is his answer. Both are worth watching clear to the end, even if you’re [...]

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