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For the past year and a half, I have been a regular contributor at the recovery website The Second Road. I learned today that The Second Road will cease operations this month. The content will remain available but unfortunately the [...]
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"We should write a book," Mark said. "We can't be the only people who have struggled through all this and I think we have a lot we could offer to other people in sharing our journey." This was a few years ago, back before I started this [...]
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Earlier this year, I read an article about technology that would allow us to record and store every moment of our lives. Imagine: our whole lives stored in a single searchable archive. We could settle those arguments with the boss by replaying what was [...]
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"You know," joked my husband Mark, "I think you ought to be paying me royalties. You wouldn't have anything to write about without me..."
"I know. It's true. That's the sad life of a codependent. My problem is being all wrapped up in [...]
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"Is Tiger Woods a sex addict?"
"What do you think about Tiger?"
"Aren't you going to write about Tiger Woods?"
The questions have been peppering my inbox, but I've been avoiding the topic.
On the one hand, I love a good celebrity sex scandal, both because I can relate [...]
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Last year I participated in Neil Kramer's Great Interview Experiment. In the process, I got to know two interesting new bloggers and was lucky enough to make a lasting friend in the absolutely fabulous Headless Mom. Who could ask for more than that? Well, apparently, me. [...]
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Last week, I asked you all to join the Just for Today Challenge with me, where we would all change one thing about our lives for just one day. I'll share what I did, and if you did something yourself, either share about it [...]
Whew! I fixed the problems with my comments and feed. And this awesome plugin fixed the problem with Wordpress automatically changing my straight quotes to curly quotes. You know, the one I broke my blog trying to fix in the first place. So now everything is working right! I love it when a plan comes [...]
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Apparently, I know just enough about coding to be dangerous. In trying to fix a problem with Wordpress turning all of my straight quotes into curly quotes, I made some changes to my blog that fixed that problem, but seem to have completely broken my feed (Thanks to Mary [...]
"What am I going to say to people? I mean, they're going to ask, 'What are you doing these days?' and what am I supposed to do? I don't know how to make small talk anymore, let alone tell them what's been going on," I told my friend Jess after she met me [...]
