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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 neighbour's kids trashed the place and the dog's vomiting and there's Fruit Loops everywhere and one of said neighbour's kids...
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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 application process about six weeks ago, and although I don't anticipate sharing every detail here, I'm very much open to chat...
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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'll be on the road for the next couple of weeks, and will try to post some brief dispatches. I was pleased as all-natural,...
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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 should. (This post is inspired by the stats quoted at the end of this AdAge piece about the recent KFC grilled-chicken promotion...
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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 it was quite literally on the occasion of an honest-to-god rite of passage, nobody fell sick as...
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This is take two of a post I started writing yesterday. I've tossed that post, but I'll sum up: I didn't love the Northern Voice blogging and social-media conference. I enjoyed hanging out with Carol Browne (who also crocheted her badge lanyard), and it rocked to bump into Zak Greant, with whom I'm already...
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Sanskrit. (Image via Wikipedia) Several weeks ago Michael from over at Books on the Nightstand tagged me in a blog meme. I was so pleased that he tagged me! I only started reading book blogs a few months ago (it was around the time I started writing more about books here), and I've loved getting...
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Happy New Year! Thank you all so much for participating on my blog, for chatting with me on Twitter, for being such talented and interesting people to work and play with. I wish you all the very best in 2009, and I look forward to sharing in many adventures with you. Unlike last year, when...
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UPDATE (8:20PM): We're back from the vet, who cleared Cleo of any major injury. Phew! She's a bit banged up, but given her day that's hardly surprising. Around 3:30 this afternoon, my husband and brother-in-law tracked her to a location around 2 km north of where she ran off. She was about 200 metres...
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