The Wright Stuff

September 2, 2010

Some mornings, I have to begin by seeking humor in order to face the world. Does that ever happen to you? This morning I pulled out a book of quotes and flipped to the page with observations by Steven Wright. Do y’all know him? He’s that sardonic comedian with the deadpan delivery that is so [...]

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Digital Mom Meme

January 31, 2010

Some of y’all may know that for the past few months, I’ve been participating in BlogHer’s Family Connections citizen journalism project as a Momspotter. Basically that means I tweet a few times a day with the #momspotting hashtag about how I use technology in my day-to-day parenting life (actually, I talk more about just life, [...]

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Thirteen Reasons I’m Thankful — Turkey Is Not One Of Them

November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving! I imagine that you all are ready for the feasting and football. What? You haven’t slain the turkey yet? We haven’t either, because there will be no “traditional” Thanksgiving in our family this year. With our children scattered around the country, my Sweet Spousal Unit and I haven’t had a real Thanksgiving since [...]

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What To Do About Blog Comments

April 13, 2009

By serendipity, I have found two posts today talking about how to deal with blog comments. It’s one of those blogging dilemmas to which I have not found the correct answer. Rebecca at Just One More Page has a meme called “Musing Mondays.” Her questions for today were: How do you respond to the comments [...]

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Link Love Again

October 9, 2008

When I first began this blog, I often sent you to view posts by some of my favorite bloggers. Lately, I’ve been remiss. For my 49th Thursday Thirteen, I decided to tell you about some posts I’ve seen that I liked AND about some happenings around my place. I know you are busy trying to [...]

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Ring Tailed Tooter, Clint Walker, Bottletrees and The Oscar Meyer Weinermobile

September 18, 2008

Those things have nothing in common, except that I’ve blogged about them before. People come to my blog every day searching for them, so I thought I’d put them together in one place to make it easy. Interspersed with some other things I want you to know about, it can be my Thursday Thirteen # [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #47. Signs of a True “Roadhouse”

August 6, 2008

These days, if you drive along the highways of Texas, you are bound to see a “restaurant row” outside of any metropolitan area. Chances are good that , if you look real hard, you will see something called “Texas Roadhouse” nestled among those slick, shiny establishments. There is another chain restaurant called “Logan’s Roadhouse.” They [...]

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Shelly Needs To STOP Referring To Herself In The Third Person

August 2, 2008

Shelly Googled her own name, because Jamie made her do it (and Shelly always does what Jamie says to do). Shelly was amazed at how many things she needed. There were 2,390,000 listings under the heading “Shelly needs.” She was also chagrined, because many of the listings had to do with…ummm…”intimate adult relationships,” and Shelly [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #46: Cholesterol, Crochet, and Country Music

July 31, 2008

No, they don’t have anything to do with each other. However, all are on my mind this week, as well as a lot of other things. I’ve been doing a lot of “pondering and piddling” this week, y’all. I’ve had plenty of time to think, because I’ve been all by my lonesome. I look out [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #45. My New “Baby!”

July 10, 2008

It’s Thursday Thirteen time, and I want y’all to be the first to know: I HAVE A NEW BABY! Well, not really a baby. In fact, it’s only a camera. A Canon Rebel XLI. I had to have it finally. And, I have the same problem with it that I have with new babies: I’m [...]

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Cancelled Due To Lack Of Interest

July 4, 2008

Aw, heck. I had posted about a writing contest called Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall. I wanted you to tell me about the most hideous beauty experience of them all! Obviously I am the only person I know who has had one of those, because I’m the only person who has posted about an awful [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #44. Good Luck or Bad Luck?

July 3, 2008

I’ve been thinking about “luck” after finding a hand-written note to myself. I’ve been cleaning out some of the papers I’ve saved and found a paper from 1996! Do y’all think it was time for me to clean out my files? For some reason, I had written these superstitions about luck down with my left-handed [...]

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Anybody With Eyes In Their Head Would Know

June 24, 2008

Ordinarily, an optometrist appointment is not my idea of the social event of the season. On that day in 1981, it was definitely a highlight of my month. I had given birth to my second son just six weeks before, and had been cooped up at home since arriving home from the hospital. I was [...]

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Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall. A Writing Contest.

June 20, 2008

[UPDATE: SORRY, THIS CONTEST GOT CANCELLED!] Have y’all ever spent hours trying to make yourself presentable, only to have the whole process backfire on you? Have you ever used some “beauty regime” that made you feel like an ugly duckling? Maybe you were getting ready for a date with that person who made your heart [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #43. Summer Plans

June 18, 2008

In just a few short weeks, a year long project will be over for me. We are delivering all those lovely afghans I have been yammering about to the kids at Camp Sanguinity. Click on the Flickr badge on the sidebar to see 140 of them! As soon as all those boxes are out of [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #42. One Woman’s Trash Is Another Woman’s Treasure

June 11, 2008

I thought I would take you on a visual tour of my house for Thursday Thirteen. My sister looks down her nose at my decorating style. She complains that I have too much stuff. And, she thinks my stuff is just “too weird.” Y’all take a look and tell me what you think. There’s no [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #42. It’s Graduation!

June 4, 2008

Do any of y’all have graduates this year? We have one about to graduate (Yippee!) and he is the last of the bunch. That means that the last few weeks have been busy, and it isn’t going to slow down soon. For Thursday Thirteen, I guess this is thirteen observations. 1. I love this quote [...]

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Thursday Thirteen Number 41. Questions.

May 29, 2008

I haven’t played the Thursday Thirteen meme in a long time, because I’ve been very pre-occupied and self-absorbed lately. Health issues have plagued me (so to speak). I recently related that I have Hepatitis C antibodies in my blood. Lots of folks have been asking me questions. I’m not an expert, and I haven’t seen [...]

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Tag, YOU Are “It.” Let’s Blog For Peace.

May 22, 2008

Friends, I rarely post viral memes anymore, but sometimes one just seems so right. This is one. I tag you and anyone else you know to join the Blog Blast For Peace. Now, my friend Sandee, at Comedy Plus, reminded me that it’s almost here, and I thank her for that. You see, the annual [...]

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Interview With Damien Riley of Postcards From The Funny Farm

April 3, 2008

Some of y’all may remember that I recently had a writing contest on my blog. It was called the This Post Blows My Dress Up Contest. You can click that link to see all the entries. The theme was “Scared Silly,” and Robin at Around the Island was the winner with her post called “Treed, [...]

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