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My father used to say that some­times you have to hold life together with bal­ing wire and a pair of pli­ers. Thanks to mod­ern tech­nol­ogy, I don’t have to resort to this.  I use Super Glue instead.

Its time to update my blog, but like  David Lubar, I can’t think of any­thing, so I’m pla­gia­riz­ing his post. ‘Since I’ve been trav­el­ing so much, and since my lap­top is so old that it runs Win­dows 3.1 (really), I don’t blog much from the road. I’m wor­ried that if I don’t blog reg­u­larly, I might …

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alixwrites  tagged me for this meme.  It was fun because it made me think. 1. Hard­cover or paper­back, and why? Paper­back. Hard­cov­ers are unwieldy to hold, and I like to read with one hand.  Hard­cov­ers are for col­lec­tions. 2. If I were to own a book shop I would call it… Barnes & Noble.  Just kid­ding. Cup & …

Alice is a Seat­tle teenager who seeks advice from a poster. She has two tree-hugger par­ents, one good friend, and an end­less thirst for vanilla lattes. What she’d really like, though, is a boyfriend, some­one, any­one who will notice her, so she asks her poster-advisor, Dove Girl, to send one her way. The prob­lem is, …

When our youngest had a cold last week, she sneezed uncov­ered.  I told her, always cover a sneeze so you wouldn’t give another per­son your cold. Oddly, she con­tin­ued to sneeze uncov­ered, and when I came down with the same awful cold this week, she was delighted.  Last night, as I sneezed (I cover, btw) …