A little over a year ago, I wrote a post about The Best Friends I’ve Never Met to celebrate the fifth year anniversary of our Where Bloggers Live series. It was a nice chance to …
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That guy. I just don’t deserve him…
This is a highly secret post. If word gets out, I will NEVER (ever, ever) hear the end of it. Pinky swear before you begin reading that this stays between us! We good? (Okay, here’s …
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Could I, or couldn’t I?
If we haven’t chatted in a while, things in my “perfect” world are NOT… (…perfect, that is). The kitchen project, while promising, is still in mid-phase hiatus (preview below). So, we’ve moved on to bathroom …
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Summer priorities: And this “ain’t” that
Ahhhh. The Fourth of July has come and gone. That means the coast is clear and nothing ahead but the rest of summer (keeping in mind that summer only technically began at the end of …
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This one’s for my Pop
Too many moons ago, after graduating college I was hired as a technical writer for a research and development firm. My dad was thought it was so cool that I was “a writer,” but I …
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Dress. Heels. Candlelit table in the corner of a restaurant. White tablecloth. Bottle of wine. Handsome husband of 39 years seated across the table. Pass. (All but the handsome husband. He’s a keeper.) Pretty sure …
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New year, new me! Resolutions for 2025
It’s a new day! I’ve hit the ground running and am leaning hard into the new year! That’s why I’m particularly excited to participate in this month’s Where Bloggers Live topic: “My New Year’s Resolutions.” …
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My own little nightmare…
Guess what! This is post three in the “coolest thing I ever made” series. You’re wondering why I am compelled to torment you with preludes, am I right? Did you end up making a Crystal …
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Let me tell you ’bout a place…
…somewhere up-a New York way…“ (In this case, the “somewhere” referenced in the post’s title is actually a little to the west of Buffalo, New York… just across the border and about a 20-minute drive …
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The green police are on their way
There has been a murder in my hallway. Well, maybe not a murder; something more akin to manslaughter. No, that’s not right, either. More like plantslaughter. Actually, INVOLUNTARY plantslaughter. Because this is an autobiographical crime …
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