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Bitching About Nothing

On Wednesdays, it’s the Standard Operating Procedure of Joeys to pick the girls up and go to one grocery store or another. It’s fairly straightforward, and involves only one crisis moment — exiting left from my neighborhood. Honestly, unless you’ve been here, you do not … Continue reading

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More Linguine than Linguistics, and by Linguine I mean Silly String

Now and again, I mention accents or dialect. I even wrote one post about vernacular and another about the nonsense language in our house, which must surely be a family tradition. Last night I drank more vodka peach tea than you can … Continue reading

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One-Liner Wednesday — Cupcakes

You get a real grasp on accents when your four-year-old child goes to school and phonetically spells out cupcayax. With her rey-yed cray-ahn. One-Liner Wednesday is brought to you by LindaGHill

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Share Your World #7

  What are you a “natural” at doing? Reading people, spaces, energy Would you prefer a one floor house or multiple levels? I don’t think it matters as much to me as it does to other people. I can honestly … Continue reading

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Snowy Tuesday Blessings with a Cuppa

Oh I get to introvert today, y’all. The boy one is here today, but he’s introverting, too. Isn’t it nice to sit in silence? Isn’t this coffee wonderful? It’s snowing outside. So peaceful. It’s also 21 feels like 9, and … Continue reading

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We’re Not in Georgia Anymore

In a strange and horrible turn of events, a tornado swept through Ft. Stewart, Georgia where we used to live. No one was severely injured, no one died, but a number of places and possessions were destroyed. People are displaced. We … Continue reading

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One-Liner Wednesday — The Scientist

Little Moo said, “Imma be a physicist or a scientist, or somethin that ends in -ist.” The Mister replied, “Anarchist.” One-Liner Wednesday is brought to you by LindaGHill

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An Earful

If this were clickbait, I’d title it SEE HOW DOING THIS ONE SIMPLE THING CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE!  And then you’d all be like, “What? I want change in my life, too!” And you’d click it and be all, “Fuck … Continue reading

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Jotting Not a One-Liner — Homework

“Finals in Spanish tomorrow. We’re studying cognates,” Sassy said. “Hm?” I asked with piqued interest. “Cognates. Words that sound like the same word in other languages?” “Ooh! Like what?” Sassy began searching her papers. “Yes, I see your knowledge of cognates is … Continue reading

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Just Jotting about Sacrifice

When I discovered the topic for today was sacrifice, I said to Sassy, “I’m going to write a blog post like ‘I have been sacrificing all my time for Just Jot it January,’ and just be all ‘Bye!’” We laughed. It’s not … Continue reading

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