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we can do better

I have the kind of job where people are compelled to ask me what my major was in college. For the record, my degree is in Advertising and Public Relations with a minor in Business Administration and has absolutely NOTHING to do with my job. My engineering-major husband liked to joke that to earn my degree [...]

from the desk of heather

Dear Supahfabulous FIber Optic Service Provider – I would like to first say that I’m immensely enjoying having more HD channels and have now gotten to the point that watching regular TV causes me to squint and complain that the people are fuzzy, and I admit this practically over my dead body because really the [...]

here come the coke bottles

The last post about the portrait studio left out a few small details.  Like the fact that it was pretty dirty.  Grungy background curtains, and the toy props just looked…icky.  And the fact that I almost LOST IT when the photographer touched Emily Kate’s face in a futile attempt to wake her up. And that [...]

smiling and saying “aaarrgghh”

Dear District Manager of the Portrait Studio We Visited Today (which I shan’t name here but rhymes with a certain train wreck of a pop star who inexplicably won a lot of awards on the VMAs a few weeks ago): Lately, I’ve had an urge to get a family portrait taken.  Seeing as how Alex [...]