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Odds and Ends #2
I wish I was a better gardener.
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Warning: May Contain Traces of Spiders
Do you ever wonder if spiders just want attention? Maybe they don’t hang out in our showers because they are spiteful and want to ruin our mornings with a fight to the death over the shampoo. Maybe they just want to spend time with us, but don’t understand how humans do things. They watch how…
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Odds and Ends #1
I recently started using Pinterest. It has helped me discover many useful home improvement tips like ‘1000 crafty things to do with jars’, ‘How to build an entire house and all your furniture out of old pallets’ and ‘Use Vaseline to distress furniture’. That last one is real. Turns out I’ve been distressing my furniture wrong…
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How to Propose with Extra Dinosaurs
“Where have you been these last few months? We’ve been suffering without regular posts filled with your sparkling wit and hilarious cartoons!” I know. I know, guys. I’m so sorry for abandoning you to several dull, me-less months. But I’ve had stuff on…
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Foibles (little crazy things)
I parenthetically (in brackets) translate words in my head. Not all words. In fact, not even most words. Most words slip through my mind without leaving a ripple. This lulls me into the false sense of security that I know them well. In reality if I was put on the spot to concisely define a…
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The Importance of Basking in the Glory of Small Victories
Recently* a friend told me something surprising. Recently* a friend told me something surprising. It took me some time to soak this peculiar idea up. I am far too used to thinking of myself as the opposite, and so the idea that I might be considered ‘impressive’ was altogether too strange to be believed…
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The Girl Who Built the Tree-House
It’s easy to let silence take over part of your life and to forget the good things about yourself. It’s easy to twist your mind and see yourself from a bad angle, to believe that acts of anger or rebellion are always bad things, to submit and tell yourself it’s only this one time. And…
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My First Near Death Experience
I’ve been so bored. Thanks to chronic fatigue I live on my couch reading books, knitting and feeling terrible that I cannot participate in life the way I used to. So I’ve decided I should write something, something that I might have fun with that has nothing to do with my couch or my illness.…
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Fighting Multi-Headed Anxiety Monsters with the Power of Song
But first a confession. I had a really hard time writing this, but an easy time drawing the pictures. In fact, I had more fun drawing these pictures than I did drawing myself being ripped apart by a bear, and I giggled continuously while doing that one. But the words were difficult. So this is…
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How to tell if someone is actually a soulless demon-spawn waiting for an opportunity to feed on your flesh
If you’re anything like me, you frequently wonder if the person you are talking to is just trying to lull you into a false sense of security so they can eat your flesh. I spend so much time and energy worrying about this that I have devised a clever trap for such people. Here, I…
Silence Killed The Dinosaurs 