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Martha Stewart doesn’t live here anymore.
On Thanksgiving Day, my friend Heidi wrote, My favorite time of year is getting to see what everyone is making and how they’re setting their table. I had to laugh. Heidi’s table looked gorgeous. Like a page out of Martha Stewart Living. There were candles and placemats and fancy harvest-themed decorations. Our T-Day was decidedly…
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I can’t be throwing Benjamins around.
I recently had an email conversation with a blog buddy named Going Down the Road Feeling Grand. Boy, is that a mouthful! You know, we berate celebrities for giving their kids unusual names. I’m looking at you, Elon Musk/Grimes, Chris Martin/Gwyneth Paltrow, Beyonce/Jay Z, and pretty much every Kardashian, but apparently even regular folks saddle…
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On the hunt for good sushi.
Tropical fish have been a hobby of mine since I was a teenager, and I’ve had aquariums pretty much nonstop my entire adult life, minus a few stretches when I was living in apartments. Even then, I still had a goldfish bowl or two. When I was 17, I ducked into a tropical fish store…
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Everyone knows the cherry in the spoon.
When planning our getaway to Minneapolis, we originally booked a hotel a couple of miles from U.S. Bank Stadium, figuring we’d just hop on light rain to get to the concert. Last weekend, Tara wondered out loud, “The Minneapolis light rail system is safe, right?” Good question. So I asked Google. The answer? Decidedly not.…
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Evian spelled backwards is not onirgelleps.
I thought this was funny based on my last two posts, plus the universal griping over the end of Daylight Saving Time. On a rock ‘n roll-related note, Tara and I recently watched the Daisy Jones & The Six miniseries on Prime Video. I was a huge fan of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 novel —…
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Now and Then, AI Gets it Right
Something I never thought I’d say to a friend in 2023: “Hey, have you heard the new Beatles song?” Something I never thought a friend would say to me in 2023: “Yeah, it’s really good!” Say what you will about AI (and plenty of you have!), if it can clean up an otherwise unusable recording…
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