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…except that I’m not capable of shutting-up. (But I love the idea -in theory- of being able to “write” a post every Wednesday that doesn’t necessarily require words). Today’s (hypothetical) wordless Wednesday post is brought to you courtesy of a debate my good friend, April & I are having over on a post I wrote […]

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The other day I found an old post that made my blood boil all over again.  Worth a repost!  “Today, I almost had to wrestle a man to the ground. Here’s the story… Ran & I stopped in what could be termed, “the hood” to go to McDonald’s on our way to Detroit yesterday. This […]

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Dave & I saw these dudes perform today.  They are Gabe & Kirk of Kinetic Affect, masters of spoken word / slam poetry. They were some kind of amazing.  Super deep.  Awesome.  Engaging, raw, challenging & over-the-top talented. I was affected. What struck me about their pieces was how real-life it was.  They spoke of […]

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Just like the next human being, sometimes I think life is completely crappy, not worth it and seriously over-rated. (I mean, c’mon God?  You could not. be. serious with this whole life-is-great thing) One of those times happened to be in the last two weeks. (and then a few months before that… and a few […]

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Can you guess what I’ve been researching???

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…this weekend at our house… Me: Ransom, please don’t stab your brother right now… (using a small Peter Pan “sword”) Ran: Well, can I please stab him later? The next day… Ran: Mama, Rhys is sucking on me & Little Jerri (the cat) is biting my toes!  Why is everyone always sucking and biting me? […]

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The Help.  Amazing.  Amazing.  Amazing.  Beautifully written fiction.  It is hard to believe the debut author, Kathryn Stockett got rejected by 45 publishers before Putnam finally took a chance & their “little” book blew up to be a BIG N.Y. Times Best-Seller with a movie on the way —I cannot wait! Last year, one of my […]

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