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Happy Holid-“ayyy”s!
I’ve been doing photo Christmas cards literally since I was born. It’s a tradition that continues to this day. Luckily, Tara is a willful participant. (Or maybe she’s just humoring me. Either way, she’s in the pics, which is all that matters.) This year we were scrambling for a photo at the last minute. Often,…
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Redemption in red, green, yellow, and blue.
Sweet baby Jesus – it’s never felt so good to be back in Wisconsin. That text was Tara’s way of letting me know her plane was on the ground last night. Woo-hoo! For a while there, we weren’t sure that was going to happen. When her flight from Manzanillo touched down in Dallas, they sat…
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Extra crispy cookie aside, I’m surviving.
I am officially on vacation now for the next week. It feels great to be able to cash in some PTO – I’ve changed jobs so frequently, I rarely accrue enough to use it before I’m onto the next gig – but hopefully, I stop that cycle with CheeseGov. The last time I had an…
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15 years of stick-to-itiveness.
My blog is 15 years old today. As hard as it is to believe I’ve been writing that long, the really astounding part is, before signing up for WorePress, I wrote elsewhere for eight years. Which means I’ve been blogging for 42% of my life. Holy cow. I had all kinds of fun ideas to…
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A Tom Hanks moment with scrambled eggs.
You know that scene in Castaway, where Tom Hanks starts prancing around like a madman, beating his chest and proudly exclaiming, “I have made fire!“? I had a moment like that this morning. But instead of fire, it was scrambled eggs. I was up dark and early, when my alarm woke me at 3:15 a.m.…
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I am The Dark Cloud!
One of my favorite icebreaker questions has always been, If you could have one superpower, what would it be? Flying is always a popular answer. Teleportation, telekinesis, telepathy, and televangelism (but only if you’re Billy Graham) always get a lot of votes, too. My answer was always different: I wanted to be able to control…
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