Excuse Me While I Douse You in Bleach

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The most recent sign of the times? My company is handing out hygiene keys for the employees. And you know what? The employees are actually taking them. I wouldn’t have been all that surprised to wake up one day and find that I’d turned into my parents. But who knew I could turn into Niles

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A Subdued Thanksgiving

3 CommentsEvents, food, health, lifestyle, memoir, rants, real life, , , , ,

I had a Thanksgiving post scheduled to go, yesterday. I pulled it at the last minute because it didn’t really fit my current mood. I’m not sure that it would have fit anybody’s current mood. I had a pretty mellow Thanksgiving this year. Just two of us, and not at Waffle House, either. All said

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Why, Yes… the Midwest IS Different.

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I just did the most small-town thing ever. As I was flipping through my spam filter, looking for anything that was falsely flagged–well, you never know–I came across an invoice for “The Other Karen.” “The Other Karen” is a lady from the state next door, who happens to have an email address that is one

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2017 A-to-Z Challenge: Ante Meridian

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Morning, in other words. Technically, all the time before noon, but not in my neck of the woods. Around here, there’s morning, and there’s the day’s half over. You wake up in the morning, not in the day’s half over. How do you tell the difference? Well, look around. If the sun’s up when you

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I’m So Healthy I Can Hardly Stand It

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I am in the midst of a give-up soda and (some) other sugars and cling to a set schedule lifestyle shift for health. It’s actually working incredibly well for me. I feel great, I’m being productive. I’ve nearly reached the point that I’m saying “iced tea” when I order in restaurants, as opposed to “Coke”

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