MARGARET DILLOWAY

  • The Art of Getting Hit by Cars

    Several people from work, also heading back, saw it happen. Saw him fly in the air over the top of the car and hit the black asphalt of the road. He tried to get up and catch a ride back to work, but someone told him to lie still and an ambulance was called.

  • The Bitterness of Lettuce

    was feeling especially organized and so I washed and cut up everything and bagged it. Good thing, too, because there were quite a few critters who had hitched rides. Ants of new sizes and shapes, some giant, some small; spiders, small worms. Protein, anyone?

  • Cupcake Pops

    I had been wanting to make these Bakerella cupcake pops forever. Which, in Margaret time, is two months. This is what you need: Small flower shaped cookie cutter 2 cups of buttercream frosting Precooked cake Candy coating Basically you squish the cake in with the frosting, roll into little balls, freeze, then mold the bottoms…

  • A Man and a Woman Talking

    My husband’s childhood friend called him yesterday. He had not talked to this guy in a year, since we moved to Hawaii. “He’s getting married September 18th,” my husband reported. “Where?” “I didn’t ask.” “Outdoors, in a church, on the beach?” “I have no idea.” “Where are they going to live?” I remembered he and…

  • Online Terrors

    Unless you count TMZ and Perez Hilton, blogs I read only for their news content and so I can answer important Jeopardy! questions in the future when I’m on Celebrity Jeopardy, which, let’s face it, is the only one I have any hopes of qualifying for anymore. I could beat Wolf Blitzer with the buzzer…

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  • Holiday (and sugar) overload. Or is that overlord?

    Later, this wanting turns into a Super Big Glamorous Sweet Sixteen and before you know it, you’re being featured on MTV and your kid’s crying because you bought her the white BMW instead of the black. Then this turns into wanting an Even Bigger More Spectacular Not Disappointing Wedding on top of it, in which…

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  • I see a Florida visit will happen someday

    Every time my husband can’t sleep, he watches a Harry Potter DVD.  Every time (practically every night) a Harry Potter movie is shown on ABC family, or there’s a Harry Potter movie marathon, he and my oldest daughter want to watch it.  Even though we have all the DVDs. I’ve read the books and enjoyed…

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  • Maunawili Falls

    The Kailua area in the Koolau Mountains is home to Maunawili Falls, a 30 foot waterfall contaminated with bacteria so you’re not supposed to swim in it (yet people do). Yesterday we decided to do the hike because we were bored and it was only about 75 degrees, and hiking is much pleasanter to do…

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  • Writing Advice

    Once you sell a book and it looks like it will actually be on the shelves one day, you begin to meet people who want to meet you, the author.  Yes, Virginia, they DO exist.  A debut author, shaken out from the steaming masses of slush piles.  These people have one question on their minds. …

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  • Words Needed in English

    I stumbled upon this list of 13 words or phrases not found in the English language.  Give it a read. esprit de l’escalier  I know I am guilty of esprit de l’escalier more often than I’d like.