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At our last online church coffeehouse I played a level THREE piano solo after playing only a level TWO just the week before. I don’t know if it’s more or less impressive if you know that I first started learning these songs about 40 years ago, with about a 40 year break between now and…
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I am trying to imagine the version of the Multiverse where my mom is alive and we’re celebrating her 85th birthday today. In this reality that we’re currently in, my mom died when she was 64 and I’ve spent her last 21 birthdays without her. (Disclaimer: I’m sure I deeply misunderstand the science of the…
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I’ve done running streaks and writing streaks, so this year for my birthday, I tried a “fashion” streak. I wore my birthstone color, aquamarine, for 15 days in a row, starting the week before my birthday. There was no higher meaning to my streak, besides that I’ve always been a little obsessed with theme dressing,…
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Winter has never been my cup of tea (although I have consumed many, many cups of tea this winter). Not only do I not like being cold, but most outdoor winter activities seem to require a level of grace and coordination that I’m not confident in trying to demonstrate. Ice is not my friend, or…
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Sometimes all it takes is a trivial accomplishment to make me feel quite proud: I felt rather successful recently when I made my hair really big. I have aspired to “big” hair in some incarnation throughout my life (I WAS a teenager in the 80’s). Of course “big” is relative, especially in regards to hair,…
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Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the Year of the Ox, so I celebrated by finishing my latch hook of a…llama? Um, yeah. Okay, it was just a coincidence that I finished this llama on the day that Chinese New Year’s Festival began. I really only know that Chinese New Year started because Garmin gave me…
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It was 35 years ago (more or less) but I still remember the simple joy of unexpectedly hearing one of my favorite songs, Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed,” on the radio and dancing around my friend’s dining room on a bright sunny day in June. I think I’m also likely to always remember what a…
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We’ve all misheard song lyrics. When I was a bookseller in the mid-90’s I peddled countless copies of “’Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyrics,” and I’ve had some doozies of misheard lyrics myself. I even had a little blog post about it in the early days of the Pandemic. But…
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Chad and I don’t have a podcast–yet. (But we totally should, right? That’s a much better pandemic fad to follow than not being able to fit in my pre-pandemic pants). But Chad has been featured TWO years in a row* with a birthday shout-out (known as “Blursday”) on our favorite podcast, “Too Beautiful Too Live…
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On an unseasonably warm Sunday afternoon in early November, I had my last sticky bun at Smith and Porter, one of our favorite local restaurants/bars. (Yes, we were enjoying our Biden/Harris election victory drinks and sticky buns outside on their patio for COVID safety). I didn’t realize then I was having my last Smith and…
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