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reverse shopping

One of my favorite books of all time is Angels by Marian Keyes.  Although all her books are amazing, engrossing comfort reads, I have read this one more times than I can count.  This book’s main character, Maggie, reverse shops  and it’s where I first heard the term.  You know how you’re in the dressing room, and [...]

check this

A few weeks ago I found myself at Lowe’s searching for a rubber thingy to fix a tilting vanity mirror. My severe inability to express myself in describing what I needed hampered me from finding the rubber thingy and resulted in purchase of several might-work-if-you-can’t-find-me-a-rubber-thingy things.  Even after I MacGuyver all these things together I’m pretty [...]

the naming dilemma

For some couples, picking baby names is easy.  We are not that couple. I remember my sister-in-law confidently announcing the names they had chosen for both boy and girl.  I was blown away by the fact that not only was she NOT going to find out the sex, but that they had chosen names without consulting [...]

why barack has a long way to go

Now that the Democrats have mostly-sort-of-unofficially decided to nominate Barack, I’d like to tell him why, through no fault of his own, he’s likely to lose in November.  Don’t get me wrong, I like the guy.  I may even vote for him.  So why will it be so hard to win when nearly everyone agrees that GWB is [...]