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Wow, December first already. A side benefit of this "Just for Today Challenge" is that one day a week, I know what the date is. But no, knowing what the date is was not my own challenge for this week. This week, I was going to focus [...]
Always a sucker for both science fiction and anything vaguely related to time travel, this season I've started watching ABC's new series, Flash Forward. The premise of the show is that everyone on Earth simultaneously loses consciousness for approximately two minutes and sees visions of a few minutes of their lives six months in [...]
A few days ago, The Junky's Wife sent me an e-mail with the subject line "Lois Movie!" (Yes, I am shamelessly piggybacking on JW's superior recovery research skills and pop culture knowledge.) Now for most people, that might imply that a new Superman film is coming out. After all, in spite [...]
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I strut down the hall,
pull a mint green plastic comb
from my jeans pocket.
Comb whips through hair and...
I fail (completely!) to look
like Farrah Fawcett.
More Haiku Friday haikus can be found at A Mommy Story.
At some point in the last year, a friend's Facebook status referred to something called "Jon and Kate Plus 8." Disconnected as I am from pop culture, I had to google the term to figure out what she was talking about. (And then I had to google "Bradley Whitford and Jane Kaczmarek" when [...]
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I've heard a lot about the A&E series Intervention, but since I've never wanted to spring for the cost of satellite or an extended cable package, I'd never actually watched it myself until this week: I followed The Discovering Alcoholic's link to streaming video versions of the [...]
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When my son was first born, I actually spent some time doing that thing that we stay-at-home moms supposedly spend our lazy, bon-bon eating days doing: I watched television. Now, I know, folks who haven't actually been stay-at-home parents to a colicky infant -- whose poor [...]
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Yesterday I wrote about the possibility that Karen Maezen Miller could be a serial killer. (In case you're wondering, the chances are small.) To be honest, I was much more concerned with the more real and terrifying possibility that she or Shawn somehow knew my mother and [...]
