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Newsy News
Happy New Year! I’ve been safely underground in my writing cave (actually a lot like a cave, not intentionally) and so have been remiss in blogging. But here’s some stuff to report. My dad found a Gil Webber for Christmas, so yay! (I am NOT asking what he paid. Seriously). The Care and Handling of…
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Merry Christmas!
It’s Christmas Eve and I’ve just washed the incense out of my hair. Sitting in the front pew of a Catholic Christmas Eve mass can be dangerous. I like Christmas Eve mass the best, because we always sing Angels We Have Heard on High. I was in the high school choir and we had to…
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Girl Kitty
A few months ago, we began to experience a rat problem. They lived in the bush behind our house, the morning glory that wraps the fence. Morning glory is the devil’s plant– it’s related to poison oak, so it can give you a rash; and if you leave torn shoots on the ground, it will…
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Gil Webber Killed Santa Claus
Little Girl has been asking for a Gil Webber doll. Again. I can’t believe I’m posting about Gil Webber twice on one blog. To recap, we looked for one around Easter, and despite the best efforts of me, three Target stores, Toys R Us and the Mattel helpline, not a one could be found. These…
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Spark: A Creative Anthology
As regular blog readers know, 20 years ago, I attended the California State Summer School for the Arts at CalArts in Valencia for creative writing. I count this as the single most transformative educational experience of my young student life, a month when I got to hang out with other artists and concentrate solely on…
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No Black Friday for Me: Mall Memories
My daughter wrote “BLACK FRIDAY,” on our calendar for the day after Thanksgiving. “I do not think that means what you think it means,” I said. “It’s the biggest shopping day of the year,” she said. I stared at her in mute horror, planning to limit television, turn off the computer, keep her away from…
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What I’ve Been Doing
Life sure gets busy this time of year. We’re just settling into our back-to-school schedules and have something going on nearly every day. On Monday, Eldest and I started our cake decorating class, where we learned how to use Wilton Tip #18 (star). On Tuesday we saw the first preview of Yoshimi Battles the Pink…
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Women on Target
I have to admit, I am a little bit afraid of guns. I want them far away from me. But I also thought it would be theoretically fun to shoot at clay targets and the like. When I saw a flier for a class called Women on Target, which pairs women with mentors for a…
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Butterfly Snack Packs
Because I’m overly ambitious, I made these snacks for our Girl Scout troop meeting the other day. Gotta have fuel for our feminist agenda! Or, to talk about friendship and stuff. I found these on Pinterest from a post on Juggling with Kids (a site I just got lost on ala Pinterest– so many great…
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The Writer and the Whale: An Overactive Imagination
After Cadillac and I got back from our trip, I regaled the kids with tall tales about Cadillac. My kids’ motto, like the X-Files, is, “I WANT to Believe.” They love hearing stories and sometimes believe them, even if they are far-fetched. And they often add onto them, spinning them into Paul Bunyan-Babe the Blue…
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