“Suffragettes and Petitions” via the Library of Congress’ Flickr Stream.
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March is Women’s History Month.  Yes, I missed nearly all of it working on my thesis, going to NYC, and getting hit by that d*mn flu.  However, today is still technically March.  So, I thought I’d hop on the Women’s History [...]

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We’re finally really over that nasty flu/cold/sinus infection thing we had last week.  Thank heavens, I feel like I lost a week.  Do you know it is almost April?!  I know.  Anyway, today I’m going to share the Neti Pot with you.  For the squeamish or those who don’t [...]

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“Retro,” from AlongForTheRide’s Flickr stream.
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Television
Roald Dahl
The most important thing we’ve learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set –
Or better still, just don’t install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we’ve been,
We’ve watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and [...]

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Moleskine’s new website is up (thanks to NotCot for posting the link) and there is a lot of good stuff up there.  It is still in beta, and running a bit slow on my Mac.  Anyway, this is the first semester that I’ve used their notebooks for classes and my planner and, quite frankly, its [...]

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We went to the Eastern Shore this weekend with friends.  I want to tell you about it, I really do, but my G-d we’ve both come down with some kind of horrible early-Spring chest cold.  I can barely stand upright for more than 20 min before collapsing into bed.
Photos and stories and crafty bits soon… [...]

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Isn’t it delightful when you find a recipe that is your new comfort food?  Something that, once you taste it, you think, “my G-d, why haven’t I been eating this since birth?!”  I suspect that Orangette’s book is going to make me say this a lot.  Last Wednesday I made her (um, her husband’s) cabbage [...]

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“CT Danbury 1875” from LibraryImages.net’s Flickr Stream.
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I thought we’d do something a bit different for Poetry Friday this week.  Click here to listen to an actor read  John Surowiecki’s “The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats.”
It was this week’s addition to the Poetry Froundatin’s “Poetry Off the Shelf” podcast.  The [...]

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Long night with Jon, drinking wine and talking about anything from politics to babies to traffic patterns in DC.  It was nice, just what I needed at this point in my life.
Lots of rejection and frustration and confusion this week– it’s been rough, no lie.  So today, my favorite things in one place: flowers, the [...]

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“Amateur Wireless Station” from the Library of Congress’ Flickr Stream.
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Today, I thought I’d share a list of the podcasts I’ve subscribed to in the last year or so.  I love, love, love podcasting.  Yes, I recognize that 2003 would like to let me know this is old news but I feel [...]

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Last night I stopped by Molly Wizenberg’s, aka Orangette, book signing here in DC.  Her book A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, honestly, is just what I need at the moment.  It isn’t only that I’ve been reading nothing but Civil War and re-enactor related things lately, its that… I’ve been [...]

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