Year: 2012
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: dmv dos and don’ts :
Okay, first of all, the place to be on chilly, gray Saturday mornings in November is at home in your jammies, not on line at the DMV with a hundred or so fellow citizens. That, my friends, is Don’t number one on our list here. If you have to go on a Saturday, pick a…
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: this is toasty :
The other night, the night we set the clocks back, I tried something new, something different: I put an electric blanket on my bed for the first time ever. This was a pretty daring move, brave even, because I’ve always been perfectly content with down comforters — I found their bulk and weightlessness (how’s this…
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: careful with that thing :
Have you heard about the new iPhone app, Snapchat? It’s all the rage these days. You take a picture, type or scribble a message on it, and send it off to a friend. A few seconds later — * poof * — it disappears. Vanishes. Even a technophobe like me is dazzled by the abracadabra…
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: autumn or fall? :
Neither. I call this the pre-party to Hell freezing over: winter in Illinois. In polite company, though, I generally use fall; I find it’s more descriptive. I mean, the temperatures fall, the leaves fall, the light falls, and my spirits, oy, they don’t fall so much as plummet. They rain down like space junk —…
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: in the dark :
The power went off at 7:52 this morning and what, pray tell, did I do? The same thing I always do; I posted myself at the light switch — flipping it on and off and on and off and on. Although nothing happened, I wasn’t totally convinced a power outage had actually occurred. Heck, no,…
the whirly girl 