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Facebook Creepy Creep of the Day: Impersonating a Medal of Honor Winner
Sometimes I get Facebook friend requests from people I don’t know. I always go to their page and check them out first. Usually, they are friending me because they are other writers or in the publishing business; or they read my book. Sometimes,they are just creepy. Yesterday I got a Facebook friend request from a…
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March Photo of the Day 7: Something You Wore
If I got any closer, it’d look like one of those photos in the kids’ National Geographic where they have to guess what the object is.
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March Photo of the Day 6: 5 pm
Okay, I forgot about this yesterday, so here is my 5 pm photo, which blinded me for a bit:
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The Lure of Fresh Deals
I don’t know about you, but I get a lot of deals in my in-boxes. All these ads where you buy 2 for 1 whatevers, or spend $10 and get $30 worth of food, and so on, and so forth. And most of them are totally things I’d buy, or do. My favorites are the…
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Finding Patterns in a Day
My mother used to say bad things happened in threes. I guess she wasn’t the only one to say that; everyone says, for example, celebrities die in threes. But if a few bad things happened in one day, she took it as a sign to stay home.* I don’t really think that’s real, but I…
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Wedding Cake for Breakfast
I just love this cover! I contributed an essay to this book, which is all about the first year of marriage. The essays (I’m told, I haven’t seen it yet) range from funny to serious. Mine’s all about my first year with Cadillac. He was an Army Airborne Ranger in the 2d of 75th Ranger…
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The Quest for the Lost Blanket of Adorableness
Most of my spam falls into the garden-variety category, the requests for help from foreign emissaries and such. But the other day, I received this email instead. Ms. Dilloway, First off, this is not spam. Well, not in the traditional sense. I am writing to you because of a comment you made years ago on…
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Horseback Riding
For my birthday, which was the day after the Superbowl, Cadillac took me horseback riding. Totally planned and set up by him. He has been very good about birthdays ever since an early relationship birthday WTF moment when he took me to look for Bruce Lee’s grave in Seattle (don’t ask). Anyway, he doesn’t like…
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Jack in the Box Bacon Shake
I walked into my local Jack in the Box after school and asked if they were selling the bacon shake. “Bacon shakes?” said another customer, a man holding a toothpick in his mouth. “BACON SHAKE? What is that? Is it a shake that tastes like bacon?” The girl nodded.”It’s new,” she said. “I’ll give you…
MARGARET DILLOWAY 