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Delightful oddity
Part of my job is to put together a daily worldwide e-newsletter. So a few days before the start of a new month, I create a folder for that month that contains the blank word documents that will become the drafts of the newsletter. They all say the day of the week and date at…
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Grammar – just try harder, please
You get judged by the way you write. You (and I) probably get judged on a lot more than that, honestly, but grammar has a certain set of rules that you can be judged on in your absence, in the case of the written word. Everyone makes mistakes. It happens. Habitual inconsistencies, however, point to…
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Death Cab for Cutie
Last night Bob took me to see Death Cab for Cutie featuring Magik*Magik Orchestra. It was an early birthday gift. We also went out for sushi. Let me tell you all about it. To begin with, Bob bought a pair of tickets in the second row of the balcony, then realized he could get tickets…
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Levon
Levon Helm – subject for the eponymous song by Elton John, drummer for The Band, one-time cancer survivor – is in his final stages of his fight with cancer. UPDATED: Levon died April 19, 2012. For Bob’s birthday one year, I got him tickets to a Midnight Ramble, at Levon’s house in Woodstock, NY. It…
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An absence of criticism
I’m currently reading Mike Monteiro’s book, Design is a Job. He writes, “A designer requires honest feedback and real criticism, and that’s not going to happen in a realm where colleagues or clients are worried about crushing the spirit of a magical being. The sparkly fog of affirmation gets in the way.”* It may be…
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Just like twins!
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the only thing that is “just like” twins is twins. The closest legitimate thing I can think of that compares is the case of one of the other mamas in my online multiples community; she adopted her daughter and shortly thereafter gave birth (within a…
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And sometimes Y
For the past month or so I’ve been increasingly bothered by the sometimes-vowel “Y.” And consequently, I’ve been bothering my husband about it. Specifically, I’ve wondered when is Y considered a vowel, and when is it not? And why? Shouldn’t it always be one or the other or always both? I finally looked it up…
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Google Search Bar
Even though I’m the one running the Google searches that end up in my Google search bar, every time one catches my eye, I’m always taken aback. It’s partly “what the…?” and partly “how did it know I was thinking that? Oh, right.” I’m sure the conglomeration of all those searches would paint a very…
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Do Strong Women Have to be Victims to be Likable?
I don’t have fully formed thoughts around this yet. But when I find my mind wandering on this topic, three movies/books stand out to me. Gone with the Wind Hunger Games (the trilogy) Millennium Trilogy (you know; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, et al.) All three feature strong-willed female leads who are unethical (as…
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“Pittsburgh”
I’m dyslexic. I had it rough before I got diagnosed as a little kid, but then I went to therapy and got a lot of tricks to help me read and write. Now I only have problems if I’m really tired. Or if I read very quickly, sometimes I can tell I’m reading the words…
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