On this day on Lake Michigan it was 55 & very windy. I was REALLY cold. My friend, M however was enjoying the warmth of the water. Which pretty much proves it...different can be good.

Yo yo yiggity yo!  I am back from my 6 wk. self-imposed blogging hiatus of sorts.  If I hadn’t taken that time I was going to implode with ALL the frustrations.  So.  How did it go? Let’s just say that first week was flipping ridick.  I had NO idea how addicted I was.  Once I deleted […]

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My Instagram(ed) life…

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Have you ever noticed that WE are the new media? We bloggers, we facebook-users, we Twitter-tweeters? We Pinterest-pinners?  We tumbling-tumblrs?  Any one can slap some words on an image, post it to facebook, pin it on pinterest and all of a sudden it’s “truth.”  In fact, Tumblr was made by this: the ability to easily […]

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World Vision 2011 Christmas Gift Catalog Cover

It’s Cyber Monday & if your like me your having hard time getting anything done on your computer due to an obnoxious amount of aggressive emails boasting of their “FANTASTIC” & “AMAZING” Cyber Monday bargains. Ugh.  Sometimes, y’all it’s just good for me to be redirected like a 2 year old is redirected when they […]

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I am coming to terms.  Truth is, the interwebs is not always a nice place to play for a Mommy blogger.  Bottom line: folks are mean.  Especially the lady folk. A few weeks ago, I got an Honesty Box inbox message that wasn’t very nice.  A woman said, “you hide behind your personality.”

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Almost two years ago, I came out of the closet with depression.  I’m still a little shocked that my confessional post about my huge battle with depression remains in the top 10 of my 500-ish posts.  The topic of depression or ‘how to treat depression’ is a key search phrase in which hords of pretty […]

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Have you ever seen Little Shop of Horrors?  It’s a musical about a nerdy florist who finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed. With blood.

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Socially, speaking. Recently, an article ran in the LA Times about how women who post lots of photos of themselves on facebook value appearance and need lots of attention. The article goes on to say that women who spent a lot of time managing their profiles, the number of photos they shared, the size of […]

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