Oh, my aching head. I forgot my PIN, in the White Castle drive-thru. So, yeah. They’re like, “Pay.” And me, with migraine, cannot. “My brain? Infarcted.” Four cars behind me. Drive-thru guy losing patience. I’m almost crying. Two eight two one? No! Eight two one two?! That’s not it! “I am so sorry.” “I take [...]

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In other words, things aren’t so smiley in these parts. I’ll try harder tomorrow.

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This is what I see every other Saturday morning when I step out of my car before crossing the parking lot to work at the yarn store. Someday soon I’m going to see if I can hurdle that fence. (I’m not planning on having any more babies.) ((Wait. Have I ever told you that Jeff [...]

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One of the best compliments I ever received came in December of 1996 while I was in Los Angeles visiting my friend Doug. It was the day after Christmas, we were sitting in a bar, and my navel piercing had just been reworked with a dangling sun. As we finished our first pitcher of beer, [...]

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NaBloPoMo is tricky when everything is going well and you haven’t really left the house in a few days. Do you care that a constellation has formed on my neck? Do you care that a group of people on Facebook really angered me, and I did absolutely nothing about it? Do you care that I [...]

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When the 2004 election results were announced, Meredith grabbed her hot sauce and started planning her relocation to Canada. This time around she’s quite pleased with the outcome, and she firmly believes the world is about to change in a really great way. (With that said, she would move to India in a heartbeat if [...]

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I voted for Michael Dukakis when I was eighteen years old. Shortly after returning to my dorm room that afternoon, the college radio station announced that they were offering three potluck CDs to the first person who could name all three Beastie Boys. Obviously, I won the CDs. (Obviously!) To this day, I associate the [...]

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Our house is not clean. Seriously. (That’s why you haven’t been invited over for dinner or coffee.) Our house is very small. We have more stuff than storage space for that stuff. And I know we need to either look inside ourselves for some motivation to release Stuff, or else we need one of those [...]

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NaBloPoMo Day 2: Sunday Afternoon with Fluid Pudding from Angela D. on Vimeo.

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Last night the fairies went flying. (Their landings may lack grace, but they more than make up for it with cuteness and vivacity! Hello there! Welcome to my mommy blog where I sometimes post photos of my kids and then I go all verbal about how cute I think they are! I don’t normally choose [...]

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