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pasty day

December 14, 2009

This is my third entry in the {W}rite Of Passage writing challenge. You can check out other entries at the bottom of the post. This week’s instructions were: Take fifteen minutes to write about your elementary school lunch. Describe. Remember. Smell. Touch. Who is there? Where are you? What are you eating? Pasty day meant freedom. [...]

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review and giveaway: lands’ end wool cotton button mock sweater

December 12, 2009

A couple weeks ago I got an email asking if I’d review a product on my blog. If you hang around bloggers long enough, you’ll discover writing reviews on your blog is fraught with peril. Some say we bloggers are only in it for free stuff, free trips, free booze, and free love. Well, the [...]

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if they really knew me

December 7, 2009

This is my second entry in the Write-Of-Passage Writing Well Challenge. Check out the links at the bottom to see some of the other great writing being contributed. Gotta say, this week’s challenge is hard, yo! It’s FICTION! Ack! Here are the instructions: Find a person in public today and study their character. Make a [...]

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who do you trust?

December 2, 2009

This is my first entry in the Write-Of-Passage Writing Well Challenge. Like Mrs. Flinger, whose brainchild this challenge is, I like good writing. I read blogs to get a sense of the personalities behind them, but mostly I read them for stories. Well told stories. Yes, this includes using reasonably good English and not murdering [...]

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when to intervene?

November 30, 2009

My grandma would yell “Don’t run!” whenever she spotted me moving at any pace faster than a stroll. I swear she said it every time I saw her. I thought she was being ridiculous. Clearly she didn’t want me to have any fun. Maybe I should blame her for my sedentary tendencies? But that’s another [...]

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barefoot in the world

November 29, 2009

I resisted reading Christopher McDougall’s Born To Run. I’d been wearing minimal footwear and reading about living, walking, and running barefoot or in minimalist shoes for over a year. Then along comes this book (and accompanying media blitz) and suddenly everybody’s like, “Hey, regular shoes are BAD! People run BAREFOOT or in these crazy TOE SHOES! [...]