Can you read with your eyes closed? Okay, then. Close your eyes and picture yourself as a knitter who is trying to finish some knitted gifts before the holidays. Also, it’s snowing and you’re in your pajamas drinking coffee and watching Season Two of Gilmore Girls. Wait! What’s that noise? Oh! Because the mailman has [...]

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Thanks so much for your laundry advice. (I have never typed that sentence before.) As I sit here at the computer, I can smell the vinegar slapping those towels around in the washer. The spores are screaming! And, I will NEVER be a fan of Marcia Cross. Marcia Cross, you may now enter My Room [...]

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So, I just signed on for NaBloPoMo again, and I’m trying to figure out if or how to shake it up a bit this year. I do know that I’m going to be crying on November 4th. And if those tears aren’t of the happy flavor, well, I just might throw in my stinkin’ towel [...]

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A few nights ago Ben Folds gently placed a bright pink bucket hat on my head and crowned me Queen of the Shirtless Crab Walk. But let’s start at the beginning, shall we? When Jeff and I were shopping for wedding rings, we ended up at a jewelry store in a mall in Nashville, Tennessee. [...]

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Harper: Does Ella have a sister? Meredith: No. But she has a brother. A mean brother. Me: She does? How old is her brother? Meredith: He’s 68. Namasté. (It’s Cultural Awareness Week at Meredith’s school. She’s particularly fond of India.) ((I love the thought of Ella, who is five, having a 68-year-old brother who is [...]

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Dear iTunes, One night last week I was doing that whole I Can’t Sleep thing, so I jumped on the computer at something like 2:17 in the morning and started browsing through the recently released items in the iTunes store. You know how it goes. You listen to thirty seconds of one song, and then [...]

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As you know, back in July I auctioned off a shawl to help fund my trip to San Francisco for BlogHer ’08. When the high bidder became the winner, I told her I was going to throw in a pair of handknit socks as a bonus. I then decided to add to the trip fund [...]

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Jeff (working hard in his office, and trying not to sound annoyed at the fact that I’m interrupting his day at 9:00 in the morning): Editorial, this is Jeff. Me: Jeff? Jeff: You got me! Me: Listen. Please know that this is one of the hardest phone calls I’ve ever had to make. I’m about [...]

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You know that Jeff is a fairly reserved guy, right? You also know that the Mizzou Tigers played Nebraska in Nebraska yesterday, right? Did you know that the Mizzou Tigers haven’t scored a victory in Nebraska in thirty years? Yesterday evening, less than fifteen minutes before the start of the game, Jeff jumped up from [...]

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About six weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a pistachio company. In not so many words, they asked if I would be interested in eating their nuts and then writing about it on my website. “Fluid Pudding is not THAT kind of website,” I answered. A few weeks later, I discovered a large white [...]

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