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Vegas and Me: A Love Story.
I first laid eyes on Vegas the night before Thanksgiving, 2011. He was shy then or maybe playing the male version of the coquette. That night it was just a fleeting glance, but our relationship has...
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Real warrior princesses don’t cry.
Dear ESPN, How about giving a girl a heads up when you're going to be showing videos that interfere with the morning training regimen of former warrior princesses? Yeah, ESPN, I'm talkin' to you.
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I’m not really a hoarder.
I am a proud member of a village that has successfully raised two village people. Somehow they managed to survive bandaged knees and chicken pox, lost lunch money and forgotten field trip permission...
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The sinkhole detour: peace.friendship.sesame chicken.
Tourists, jaywalkers, taxi drivers willing to U-turn from the far right lane to pick up a mini-skirt wearing fare, and Metro bus drivers with felony records are a driver's worst nightmare. But the...
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Where it began, I can’t begin to knowin’.
Friday, September 6, 2013, approximately 0635 U.S. Eastern: "So, I'm in a bar in Auckland and they're playing "Sweet Caroline." I don't think you'd like it any better sung in a sexy Kiwi accent." Thus...
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I’m not really a tourist.
This really happened. I know I say that a lot, and I'm not sure why I would think that you wouldn't believe me. In this particular case, I'm not sure I believe it myself. But, as far as I know, this...
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I’m not really a pumpkin juggler.
In the final analysis, the pumpkin probably had it coming. As for me, I fully accept responsibility for my role. Mistakes were made. I can't say I didn't have fair warning. What I have heretofore...
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Halloween for bloggers: how to be sexy spam
Today is October 31, All Hallow's Eve, a day to celebrate . . .something. Death, blood, monsters, witches, chocolate, pumpkins, pretending to be someone or something you're not, checking apples for...
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Chicken-playing toads: a suburb under siege.
Spoiler alert: I drop-kicked a toad. This is the story of how that happened.
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On heat indexes, windchill factors, and Starbucks: the relativity of weather
Originally posted on Hippie Cahier:You may have heard a little about this. Many of you are experiencing it along with me: it’s hot. In fact, yes indeed, it’s hot enough for me. Thank you very much for...
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There might be unicorns among us.
. . . This time I could not restrain my cluelessness, which I shared aloud. I was invited to Google the term, whereupon I was reminded that there are a lot of people on the Internet with entirely too...
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What Abraham Lincoln did not tell us about happiness
Four score and a lot of years ago, give or take, the 16th President of the United States was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Here in the U.S., we're about to kick off a three-day weekend honoring Abe...
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Famous Abraham Lincoln quotes
For a little context, read the long version here. For some fun, add your own in the comments section.
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The unexpected dangers of sleeping with your smart phone.
"She who goes to sleep with a smartphone at night allows the smartphone to control her life by morning." ~~ Abraham Lincoln
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Random answers to unasked questions and thoughts about changing light bulbs.
I really wanted to spare you the melodrama, but the fact of the matter is that approximately every other one of these keystrokes is causing me pain. And yet here I am, tap-tap-tapping away, bless my...
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U.S. Secret Service to build mock White House called “Dave’s Place.”
This week the director of the U.S. Secret Service proposed building an $8 million replica of the White House. I think we should call it "Dave's Place."
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Why I’m boycotting boycotting (and why I don’t care if you do or don’t).
As an aside, it took years for me to get over a boycott of that subset of Indiana known as Indianapolis. Eventually, and not without great personal turmoil and struggle, not to mention that my sainted...
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From here to Vernazza
It started out like any other weekday and then…boom… a chance encounter with a typical downtown pothole. Thank you, Winter That Will Not End. One thing led to another and eventually I found myself...
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In the forecast this weekend: men swinging sticks.
Every interfaith relationship inevitably has its moments of compromise. Moments when the passionate beliefs of One must yield to accommodate the passionate beliefs of The Other. This is the story of...
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Mea culpa and other miscellany
I had every intention of waking this morning and getting right to replying to all those kind comments that have been lingering over there in the side frame for far too long. Then I fell in with some...
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