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October 14, 2018 by Jen
…at an autumn wedding “It was summer yesterday, so it will feel like summer at 9pm tomorrow.” “Taking this dark …
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Category: 10-item Lists, Grad School, Life in 10 seconds, Positive Notes, Road Diaries
| Tags: friends, graduate school, Halloween, lists, wedding
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October 7, 2018 by Jen
There are a lot of people seeing red these days. Apart from the ugliness in the news, I seem to …
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Category: Commander Sunshine, Making a Difference, Spinach in the Teeth of Life, Thoughts on God and life
| Tags: allergies, art, beauty, culture care, current events, Makoto Fujimura, mold, News
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September 27, 2017 by Jen
Driving through Virginia this week, I’m pretty sure I discovered why so many rural Americans voted for President Trump: it’s …
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Category: Me Being a Writer, Road Diaries, Spinach in the Teeth of Life
| Tags: 2016 election, driving, immigration, political correctness, politics, right-wing media, road rage, snowflakes
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April 24, 2017 by Jen
Geronimo is a big, beautiful, waxy green spathiphyllum* who is 3.5 feet tall and at least that wide. After some …
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Category: Quirky Afternoon Thoughts, Spinach in the Teeth of Life, Work-from-Home
| Tags: anger, house plant, peace lily, spathiphyllum
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April 8, 2017 by Jen
Dear ten-year-old version of myself, Today I ate an entire yellow bell pepper for lunch because I’m an adult, and …
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Category: Me Being a Writer, Spinach in the Teeth of Life
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April 2, 2017 by Jen
There was a new bruise on my knee this morning, roughly the size and shape of the coin slot in …
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Category: Day-to-day Dancing, Running Rush
| Tags: conversation, dance party, dancing, Final Four, klutz, klutzy moments, movement, opinions, politics, spatial awareness, Ultimate Frisbee, UNC-Oregon, unintended injury
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February 26, 2017 by Jen
“It’s on the Internet, so it must be okay to use it.” Nooooooooooooooooo. As a long-time writer and blogger who …
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Category: Me Being a Writer, Spinach in the Teeth of Life, Working Life
| Tags: copyright, ethics, fair use, licensing, public domain, soapbox moment, trademark, user guidelines, USPTO
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February 10, 2017 by Jen
(It’s not quite the Von Trapps or Margery McKay, but it’ll do. #nerd) How do you solve a problem like …
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Category: If Life Had a Soundtrack, Parody Road, Positive Notes
| Tags: craft beer, demographic, Margery McKay, marketing, millennials, Peggy Wood, The Sound of Music, trends, Von Trapps
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February 4, 2017 by Jen
One day last week I was running late by the time I made it to the kitchen for my morning …
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Category: Making a Difference, The Debater in Me, Working Life
| Tags: 2017, Coffee, conversation, DeVos, metaphor, observations, politics, Presidential election, that's what she said
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January 2, 2017 by Jen
Sonnet #2016 If Shakespeare saw beyond the mask of death Sir Walter’s face stamped on this legal tryst, I think …
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Category: Literary Love, Making a Difference, Me Being a Writer, Parody Road, The Debater in Me
| Tags: 2016, 2017, Cooper, Democracy, General Assembly, GOP, HB-2, HB2, Macbeth, McCrory, NC, New Year, North Carolina, politics, Raleigh, Richard III, s4, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, sonnet, special session, WeAreNotThis
