Every time the “Mongoose” Fu Manchu commercial comes on, I have to rock out. Yes, we are not Tivo people, so I can’t escape the commercials. We have no cable, so all we watch are Netflix DVDs and stuff on the computer, hooked up to the telly. That’s how I saw the “Mongoose ” commercial [...]

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I think I’ve spent about 6 hours on the internet today. Not straight, of course, kids don’t much like that. We went to the Farm in the morning to pick up our share of this week’s harvest…I have a bumper crop of blueberries and will have to figure out how to make Vegan muffins. I’ve [...]

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Last night, as the extremely rock and roll Amanda Kleinman was preparing to rock the 9:30 club, I was in my kitchen with a book marketing conference call muted, trying to get my kids ready for bed while tuning in enough to learn something. You can imagine how well THAT went. Actually, I did glean [...]

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The other day, J (my 11 year old- holy cow) and I were cruising in the blue car. The blue car is my husband’s ride. It has no XM (Gasp!) and is full of burned CDs that are works in progress of his…awesome, but not necessarily good cruising music.
So I dug a CD from [...]

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I’ve admitted to being a bit of a pop-tart before, so hopefully this post won’t come as a shock to anyone. I did grow up in the 80’s/90’s, after all. But I like to pretend to myself that I like my pop a little smarter…jeez, it’s not like I’m a Hilary Duff fan. (note to [...]

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