For someone who has an extraordinarily low tolerance for structure, I'm really missing my normal routine. It may not actually be the routine I'm missing, but the space? I miss my home. My jogs in the
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I didn't much enjoy attending the Northern Voice personal blogging conference last year, but I decided to give it another go this year, for several reasons. First and foremost, in the last fifteen
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And holy smokes, she's doing it right! I have some opinions about how-to/DIY-oriented video shows*. Some strong ones. And having just watched Diane's inaugural two-minute video, I'm compelled to sh
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I know, "nearly approved" is like "almost pregnant." Still, we really are nearly approved, and I'm itchy to talk about it. Over the last several weeks we completed the final major part of our ap
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We had our first home-study session for adoption yesterday. Contrary to what we've all seen on television — a social worker shows up to a home unannounced on the day the vacuum broke and the ne
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This weekend on Twitter I mentioned for the first time publicly that we're applying to adopt, and I was really psyched by the enthusiasm lots of people shared. Thank you! We started the complex
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Don't Mix 'Em, originally uploaded by pantufla.
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Greetings from Philadelphia, home of the founding of humidity, the cheesesteak, and where, as contrasted against the wee state to the south, everything is named after Ben Franklin instead of DuPont. I
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Image via Wikipedia You know about statistics, right? About how to judge whether the news you're hearing or reading is actually reflecting the numbers behind it? Because you really, really sho
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Twenty years ago today in the suburbs of Albany, NY, wearing a white frilly dress purchased from the store where one must purchase such things in Brooklyn, NY, I sang in public for the last time. As i
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