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I was watching Project Runway the other day, in which aspiring clothing designers compete in a reality show competition. Not one of my favorite shows, but I was sitting there all lazy and watching it. And Tim Gunn, whose job it is to make all of the competing designers feel insecure about their work …Cruel poetry


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    Don’t you see?

    OK, someone in my real life, but who is not in my day-to-day life, recently said to me . . .

    “I can’t read your blog anymore.  I know you’re just making stuff up to be a writer, and if I read all of these lies?  It will influence my idea of who you …Don’t you see?

    Endless loop of stupid

    Kallan bought one of those ridiculous wheels of gum . . . Hubba Bubba.  Big pink plastic container that opens to allow you to unspool lengths of pink sugary chewiness.  She had friends over yesterday, and she didn’t want to share the gum with them.  And so she left the container of gum here …Endless loop of stupid

    Hands down

    Babies freak me out.

    I am not a baby person.

    I loved my own babies, more than I would have thought possible.

    But in general?  I am not a baby person.

    When someone hands me a baby?  I tend to hold it as though the mother has asked me to hold her purse as …Hands down

    Potential Emergencies

    I am trying to sit quietly on the couch in the moments before we head out to a family picnic being hosted by the girls’ soapbox racing friends.  I am quiet, but Maj’s pants are too loose and apparently?  Much yelling is required.

    They are the sort of pants that have an adjustable waistband, …Potential Emergencies