Usually at this time of year I sit down and make a list of new year’s resolutions I’m almost certain to keep. Highlights from years prior include laying off crack, not spending all my money on hookers, giving up Lucky Strikes, sleeping late on sunday and (my personal favorite) moving more often. Hey, […]

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I should never blog about future travel plans because it seems each time I do we end up changing them. We’re still going to London in February (tickets booked, car reserved, vacation flat paid for), but the original plan of touring Norway & Sweden in April has been shelved (hopefully to be gotten to […]

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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary… the evil it does is permanent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

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I’m so bummed to be missing all the snowstorms in Colorado. Last year in Colorado Springs I was wearing short sleeved shirts the days after christmas. Now that I’ve moved away it won’t stop snowing. I love, love, love snow…
Oh well, we still have time for Germany to be hit with another […]

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Believe it or not, I always view christmas as the calm before the storm. If christmas were a story the shopping in weeks prior would be the exposition, the 25th the course of action, the three days after christmas the climax, with the denouement happening somewhere around the 30th.
Yep, five long days of “mommy, […]

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In the words of the immortal Clark Griswald, here’s
hoping you have the hap-hap-happiest christmas
since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fuckin’ Kaye…
Merry Christmas!

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Little dude has reached the point when all puppies turn into little doggie men. Meaning, he’s started humping things. And by ‘things’ I mean pretty much anything in sight… my shoes… a roll of toilet paper… Syd’s head… balled up towels on the bathroom floor… my-size barbies… he even once humped a head […]

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The recent celebrity trend of naming children after grandparents (P-Diddy being the latest to join the fray, naming his twin girls after grandmas) got me thinking about how impossibly impossible that would be for me. With grandmas named Marge and Esther, and great-grandmas named Orah and Juniper, I’m fresh out of luck…

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When did it get to be 3 days until christmas?? It seems my innate ability to procrastinate has served me a little too well lately. While I’ve sat here posting lame crap and reading about vikings I’ve whittled away almost all of the pre-christmas shopping days left.
That said, I’m off… gulp… to the […]

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