And it’s a good thing. There’s just so much fun stuff going on right now, it makes me happy. My eyes have a permanent twitch to them from constantly:
A. Staring at the computer screen or B. Reading Harry Potter (I’ve read them all before, but have a really fun kind of Booknesia- every time, I’m [...]

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Two weekends ago was the lovely Austin City Limits Festival. I was dying to go, because A. I love festivals. B. I think I would like Austin. C. I have cool innerwebs friends there whom I would love to see in real life (like Jenny who made this site!) and, last but not least, D. [...]

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I knew when I woke up it probably wouldn’t be a great day. It almost never is when your mom’s having surgery, cause, well. It’s one of those necessary but not fun things. But never did I think I would travel into the land of complete meltdown where I found myself by mid-afternoon. Let me [...]

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I know the answer should be something like, “Hold it up!” or, “Stick your finger in the dike!” or, some really smart economic idea that I’d need a whiteboard to explain (If I understood it in the first place).
But my answer, in the face of the terrifying election that defines our next 4-8 years, and [...]

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I was listening to Oprah Winfrey’s channel on XM on the way home from the school run this morning (Hey! Stop judging me! We can’t all be NPR all the time.) and I heard an interview with Wynton Marsalis about his new book, “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life” . I [...]

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