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I’ve Got You Under My Skin

  I’ve Got You Under My Skin (or They Make A Cream For That Now) There are so many things that make me angry. I can’t count the days when I’ve wanted to drive up on the sidewalk – Liberty

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Emissions Standards

Modern Etiquette for the Socially Challenged Part Two: Emissions Standards (or What’s Behind Door Number Two? Eww. Sorry.) There’s a time and a place for everything. The time is not after you have scarfed down that third bean burrito, and

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Posted in Blog, Things I know less about than I think

Dressed To Kill

Dressed To Kill (or Are You Really Going Out In That?) An open letter to all the anti-fashionistas out there. To whom it may concern, Seriously, what are you wearing? Take a good look at yourself in a floor length

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Digging in the Dirt

After she died, I found some books in my great aunt’s attic. Among them were her diaries. May 6th, 1972 Dear Diary, I’m so glad that spring has arrived. I can finally get out and work on my garden. It

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Change For The Better

(or If It Ain’t Broke, Sell Them Upgrades) Have you ever had the experience where you walk into a store to buy something and it’s just not there anymore. It might have been something you’ve been buying for years, like

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Modern Etiquette for the Socially Challenged Part One

(or What’s Behind Door Number One?) Is it just me or are people getting more rude? Now I’m not talking about you garden variety pedants who correct your grammar or the guy at the back of the line who jumps

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The End of the Universe

(or My Inner Dialogue Part Four) “So I’m talking to myself and…” “Whoa! Let me stop you right there.” “Uh…what’s going on?” “You’re going on that’s what’s going on.” “What do you mean?” “This is the part where you make

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Posted in Blog, Talking to myself does not make me crazy.

I Need To Get Out More (or Been There; Done That)

So, I’m not what you’d call a seasoned traveler. In fact I haven’t been anywhere for a while. My passport expired about the same time as Kurt Cobain did. (What? Too soon?) It certainly wasn’t from a lack of desire.

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What Do You Want? (or My Inner Dialogue Part Two)

So I’m talking to myself again and I say, “Hey me.” “Oh, you again?” “What do people want?” “You mean besides sex, oxygen and the occasional jelly donut?” “Yeah.” “How should I know?” “You’re people, aren’t you? What do you

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Uncommon Courtesy

(Or don’t make me come up there!) To the drunken hooligans outside my window, Unless the next words that you speak are either, “The house is on fire!”, “You’ve won the lottery!”, or “There really is an axe murderer downstairs!”,

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