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A treadmill story
I spend 1/24 of my day working out on the treadmill, even though I was never athletic. In fact, I was often one of the last kids picked for teams in gym class. I hated gym class. After a weight gain...
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A few days mired in slothfulness
I work at a STEM university about 20 minutes from my house. The university was closed for two weeks over the Christmas and New Year’s break (although technically, I think it’s called Winter Break)....
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The case of the shedding Pottery Barn rug
Beautiful dog, beautiful (shedding) rug. I bought a rug from Pottery Barn. It was on clearance – a FINAL SALE rug. It had either been displayed in the store (which means it may have seen its fair share...
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Book review – Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol by Steve Jones
I’ve read some good books this summer. Here is one I really enjoyed. Free image alert: not a Sex Pistol Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol by Steve Jones Can’t say I knew a lot about the Sex Pistols...
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Jumping in
Now this is sheer perfection. I have this habit of waiting to get started until all the rubber duckies are lined up in a single-file row of perfection. But they never are. So I just keep putting things...
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Scotland travel tips, part 2
Well, well, well…I’m finally getting around to Scotland travel tips, part 2. What can I say? I lead a busy, glamorous life. It’s hard to keep up with me! Here goes the second part: Highlands view on...
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Scotland travel tips, Part 1
Typically pretty view from a pedestrian bridge in Edinburgh. My husband and I traveled to Scotland for 11 days in September 2017. Should you have any interest in visiting the land of tartan and...
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Travel tip
My husband and I are on our way to Scotland. Right now, we are in the midst of a three hour layover at the Pearson International Airport in Toronto. Fun timez, these layovers. Though we hail from a...
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Writing group re-imagined
Hot off the presses! So here I am. Sitting down to write. I have no plan. No outline. No idea what I’m going to write. I’m with two other writers – Lisa and Karen. We are sitting together at Starbucks...
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A work story, part one
1977. I was anxious for a job that didn’t entail putting other people’s children to bed before I raided their fridge. So I walked along the shoulder of a busy road to the corner restaurant and applied...
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Five Ways Engineering is Like Writing
In my last blog post, I promised a part 2 to “All the Things I Didn’t Say at the Writing Conference, Part 1.” Instead, I dusted off a little piece I wrote in a long ago and far away time. Inspired by...
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All the things I didn’t say at the writing conference, part one
I participated on a panel discussion with two wonderful writers, Cindy LaFerle and Claire Charlton, at the Detroit Working Writers annual conference on Saturday, May 21. Our panel description: Creative...
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London and Paris, Part Three
Time to wrap this up for all seven readers: I love and adore you. Thank-you ever so kindly for reading. Places that were closed but still worth visiting Eiffel Tower – ain’t she a beauty? Buckingham...
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London and Paris, Part Two
Harrods – ain’t she a beauty? So where was I? Oh, yes, the trip. Let’s break it down into categories. Mass Transportation I like subways. I think they’re fun. So I didn’t mind that our apartment in...
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London and Paris, Part One
Westminster Abbey – ain’t she a beauty? I thought I better blog about our trip to London and Paris before I don’t. Because it’s easy to procrastinate about the very thing that makes a good story....
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Writerly Stuff, Bond Renewal and Otherwise Playing Catch-up
Hello all of you out there in Internet-land. It’s been a while since my last missive so I figure it’s time for another. Now that I’m caught up on my fan mail, that is. Oh, who am I kidding? I’ll never...
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Advice that stands the test of time
More advice! Sometimes advice comes from the unlikeliest of places. Here are a few pieces of advice that have stayed with me. “I am the problem” – advice from a performance review in the early ’90s The...
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New Blog Post: Cue the Celebratory Confetti!
I haven’t written a blog post since September. I’m sure you were all worried that I was dead or lost in Lithuania or just plain despondent over Theresa Guidice’s jail sentence. Yeah, I watch the Real...
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A Kroger’s story
The Birmingham Kroger’s where I have grocery shopped for the past 17 years or so is closed for remodeling. For four months. I know. Tragic, right? That means I have to shop at a different Kroger’s, in...
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A Laptop Story
Somewhere in the vicinity of six to nine months ago, we lost our laptop. How do you lose a laptop? Well…either my husband left it in a hotel room when he went to visit our son, who spent his first year...
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