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Snow Patrol: I Love You, but My Family Doesn’t
The atmosphere in the car crackled with hostility. (How is that for a cheesy, spy novel introduction?) I had just taken over the wheel, prepared to drive the mind-numbingly boring section. The Norwegian Artist, who, per our long understood agreement … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, cars, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Entertainment, Family, home, Humor, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, music, News, Parenting, Personal, Random, Relationships, shopping, travel, Uncategorized, vacation
Tagged car, CD, drive, music, Snow Patrol, travel, vacation
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The Big Significance of Small Business
Normally, I avoid buying cookies, or anything, from strange children on my doorstep. It’s not so much that I discourage budding entrepreneurs as that I prefer to not support the mega-companies providing the product and pocketing most of the profits. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Beauty, blogging, Business, children, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Economy, Encouragement, Family, Growth, home, Humor, inspirational, Job, Life, Lifestyle, News, Parenting, Personal, Relationships, shopping, success, Uncategorized, Work
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On a Quest with Google Maps
When you travel, it’s important to remember the necessary stuff — i.d., extra cash, charge or debit card, spare underwear. And, on a recent overnight foray, I did, but despite checking and rechecking, I still managed to forget something crucial: My … Continue reading
E-book — The Jane Austen Driving School
The newly published Jane Austen Driving School is the second volume in the Ordinary Life Is Beautiful E-book Series, adding to the stories and illustrations of Life Is a Gift. Thirty short, easy-to-read, fun and funny stories bring readers into … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, driving, Droid, e-reader, IPad, Ipod, Jane Austen, Kindle, life, ordinary, wirelessly
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New E-Book — Life Is a Gift
Just published with Amazon e-books, Life Is a Gift is a series of 30 short, upbeat essays about life with the Norwegian Artist, the Progeny, and the rotating assortment of animals on the studio farm. Drawn from a compendium of … Continue reading
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Lost in the Box Store — Where Are the Socks?
For years, whenever I wanted to fully express the abject monotony of a mind-numbingly tedious task, I drew upon the comparison of buying a pack of socks. How wrong I was. Humbled now, wrung by a recent shopping ordeal, I … Continue reading
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