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Nostalgia

The recent spate of miserable heat and stifling humidity brings to mind the years (1980-1985) our family lived in a suburb of Orlando. I know, way to sell it, right? Not the Sunshine State, not sunny Florida, which the orange juice manufacturers have managed to imbue with a refreshing, delicious

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On cobblers' children

You can probably think of several of those old sayings: cobblers’ children never have shoes; doctors’ children are always sick; etc. I have a new one for you: cg’s blog rarely gets updated.  And when I say updated, I mean both in terms of posts and in terms of

Librarianing

Seek, and ye shall ...

N.B. I don’t normally post about work-related matters … heck, lately I don’t post at ALL, so who knows what qualifies as regular? In any case, I started out intending this for our department blog at work and it has stubbornly and irreversibly formed itself as you will

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A New Thing

Really, I should’ve known that even mentally assenting to the idea of NaBloPoMo was certain to result in failure – it’s not like I’ve been super successful with it in past, or even successful at all, and this go round involved a move and a new job and

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FAIL

To tell the true story of this year’s NaPoBloMo fail: I plumb forgot on Tuesday, until the moment when I turned the light off to go to sleep and then I laid there and this train of thought occurred: “But you could write something short.” “But the light is

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NaBloPoMo, redux

Yes, ladies and gents, it’s that time of year again – the time when some folks take up the challenge of National Novel Writing Month, and some folks just try and friggin post on their dusty old blog every day for 30 days in a row. I tried this last

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Happiness, pt 3

This has been a new experiment. Just after publishing my last happiness list, I started this one and have been adding to it until it seemed to reach a length that was significant enough to put out into the world. lavendar | hand claps | puns | doing short spine in pilates reformer

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bitter/sweet

I’ve written pretty extensively on this blog about being real, not fronting, etc., so I’m going to begin this with an admission: Big Head Todd & the Monsters were huge when I was in college, and I still like their first two albums. There. So was The Verve.

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Happiness, pt. 2

Because I’ve been so productive today, because I’m waiting on some unsalted butter to thaw so I can bake something, because I really enjoyed my lunch, because … well, because, some more things that make my heart sing. And yes, I encourage you to imagine each of these in

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It's a process.

It might come as a surprise to those who know me, or who have heard me speak somewhere professionally to know that for a long time I was quite shy and uncomfortable talking to people. Sometimes it showed, sometimes it didn’t, but oh mercy, did I feeeeeel it. I

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There is no try.

Literally. There has been no try. Hence those sad, unfulfilled RSS readers, pinging and pinging and nothing new, nothing new.  Why is this? Well, would you like the reasons I’ve been giving myself, followed by, in italics, the actual reasons? OK, great. * I just don’t have time to

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The world is not a vale of tears

It occurred to me today, while running, that because I often use this space as a place to work through and articulate issues that require some wrestling to the ground it also may inadvertently have taken on a tone that is somewhat less than positive. My apologies, dear readers. (I

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In which kids' television goes philosophical

Naomi Slimed. by iSlime Who here watched Nickelodeon? Or had a younger sibling that did? I can raise my hands on both counts. (Did you know they’ve changed their logo? Bah! That makes me sad.) Well, for those of you who didn’t, and because it’s good practice

Librarianing

Blog Post to a Young Librarian

Dear me. Wait, let me clarify. Dear me-10-yrs-ago-on-Aug-21-2000-my-1st-day-at-my-first-job-as-a-professional-librarian. There are a lot of things I’d love to tell you – some about things I wish you’d done or tried (or simply done or tried earlier), some about things I wish you’d avoided (for example: there is nothing about

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new-ish blog-ish

so. <brushing away cobwebs> anyone home? it’s not that i broke my fingers, or that i was sacked, ran out of money and thus had no access to the internet because – let’s be real, the public libraries are closed a lot more often these days and

Librarianing

Pretty much the pinnacle

The Old Spice Man wearing a towel, standing in an awesomely fake bathroom set, talking about libraries …and peanut butter. Yeah, I’m satisfied with that. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu-KBxOtJxs&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0]

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Rain, rain...go away, but just a little?

We’ve been buffeted with storm after storm the last couple of weeks, including a real doozie last night. I’ll confess, I like rain – I like galoshes, and umbrellas, and not squinting. It can get to be a bit much sometimes, true. On the whole though, as long as

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For all the ladies

I’m torn as to whether to first allude to Beyoncé or the Beastie Boys. I suspect that sums up a lot about my personality. Anyway. Two more ways to kill time on the internets. (Because we all need more options for THAT.) Mostly for the ladies, but I suppose

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Love. & Lovely.

Last night I went to the wedding reception of my friends Ang & Sam. If were going to try and boil what they do down to one compound sentence: Ang is in the profession and possibly the most amazing reader I’ve ever known, I’ve never known anyone to

Cookery

The vinaigrette that changed my summer

It seems overstated. That’s okay. It’s still true. Whether we like it or not, we all know … we should eat healthily – lots of veggies and greens and such, and that often gets interpreted as lots of salad. I am a lover of salad, but anything can get boring

Photos &amp; such

before & after

So, I’m trying a new thing. I haven’t delved very deeply into processing my photographs thus far – the occasional red-eye removal, doing some adjustments now and then to try and sharpen them up so to speak – but the more I look at very processed images the more interesting

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Inevitability

I guess it was bound to happen. If you put yourself in a situation often enough, you should expect the obvious outcome. Tonight at the local I heard someone greet my fave bartender by name, the name which has up to now been shrouded in mystery. The name which, frankly,

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Garden update

Since it’s nearly the end of the month, I bring you this garden update. I am also very excited to be doing this with the aid of a totally awesome wordpress plugin called flickpress. Finally! So EASY to insert my flickr images in my posts. Yay. Just click through

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Happy, smile. Sad, frown.

Match the corresponding face to the corresponding emotion. Sometimes it’s hard, as in the photo above, titled ‘to cry or to laugh?’ (I found it on flickr, you can click through to see whence it comes and its little story.) I believe I said I was going to be

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Happiness

So the latest of the Pioneer Woman’s photo contests is themed, “Happiness.”  Check it out (first group here) and I’ll be back with some thoughts on that topic soon. I have very few photos I think would qualify mostly because I almost never take pictures of people. I