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Healthcare Reform, Green Acres-style

I would like to thank Sue Lowden, Senate-candidate from Nevada, for the most rollicking laughter I have experienced in quite some time. Just when I thought the Right couldn’t get any funnier, the resourceful Ms. Lowden has proposed a barter … Continue reading

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Wicked

Blog note: This post specifically addresses archetypes in Western literature and speaks to the broader experience of western, largely European, women in the western, christian cultures that contributed these archetypes. As a result, this post doesn’t touch upon the life-experiences … Continue reading

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A Bad Lesson Learned on “Project Runway”

You wouldn’t know it to look at me (daily uniform: jeans and American Apparel t-shirts), but I adore fashion. After nearly 19 years of being married to an artist, who is also the world’s best web designer, I have become … Continue reading

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St. Valentine vs. The Wolfman

It strikes me that there are certain things that grown women do that are better suited to teenagers. Things like read silly vampire books, wear skinny jeans, and over-inflate the worth of Valentine’s Day. Why do grown women do these … Continue reading

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Life With Bigfoot

Bigfoot has been part of my life since I was a little girl. My first memories of watching television consist of two things: Sesame Street and the Patterson film. I was five when I first saw the Patterson film on … Continue reading

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One Person’s Pain is Another Person’s Problem

Not. I generally despise television advertisements, especially the ones aimed at women or their children.  We all know that children are rather suggestible; my son wants a blanket with sleeves and my daughter wants some of those wonderful hanger thingys. … Continue reading

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Being Velma

I am short, plump, wear glasses, and have shoulder-length hair that is still mostly brown. If I was wearing an orange shirt and red skirt I’d be a dead-ringer for Velma from the Scooby Doo series of TV shows and … Continue reading

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Post Mortem

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the death of a friendship and to pick it apart to find out what killed it. And that is about all the dark humor I can manage. One of my longest-standing … Continue reading

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Operator Error

We have a car, and I mean A car. One. It’s a 2002 Volvo station wagon that is beginning to show its age. The leather upholstery has been completely kid-ified, the central console is broken (by a kid standing on it), … Continue reading

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Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.

I am the family weirdo, the black sheep, the one who’s gone astray. I’m sure that, in my absence, other family members shake their heads ruefully, tut-tutting at the shame of it all. OK, some background is in order, lest … Continue reading

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