The Bigger They Get

While driving through Licking County, Ohio I found myself wondering, Do Licking County residents eat tongue sandwiches?

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Found while traveling through Maryland yesterday:

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Yes,Dear and I are leaving tomorrow for a weekend at my sister’s vacation trailer. It’s in a small community on a river in Maryland about an hour from our home. With all Yes,Dear’s health problems this year we haven’t had a break and we’ve really been looking forward to a couple of days [...]

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Reading Bossy’s excellent post this morning about shopping with her son for his college dorm, I couldn’t help but reminisce about our experiences sending a child off to academia for the first time…more specifically, reading Daughter’s housing contract which made me laugh even as I wondered what our baby was getting into.

The contract expressly forbade [...]

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I recently found Stickies, which are amazing and versatile virtual Post-Its that sit on my computer desktop and remind me of all the things I need to do. Thanks to Stickies, I’ve gotten rid of most of the little scraps of paper containing jotted notes, lists, reminders, to-dos, etc. that used to litter my desk.
Stickies [...]

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Mr. Tax Guy says we can’t claim Daughter as a dependent for this year because of her assistantship which starts in August. She is now officially a big sucking drain on the family finances and I told her so. In a loving way, of course.
Her response? Don’t think of me as a [...]

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I don’t want to generalize about men or male bash since I have a terrific husband and two incredible sons.
But.
If the lack of initiative displayed by the men in our home isn’t the result of gender, it is almost certainly genetic since father and sons are all afflicted. I started to realize what I [...]

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Has anyone else discovered Arby’s chocolate turnovers? I just ate two - one for each butt cheek to keep things even during bathing suit season, you know?
Yum.

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There’s a new blog called Improg which twice a week posts a word for bloggers to, well…blog about.
Monday’s word was “Connection”. So I’ve been thinking about the many and various connections we have to each other, to the world, to our neighbors, to our homes, to public water and sewer, etc, and trying to [...]

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As you can see from the previous post, this has not been the best week, so I thought I’d find something else to worry about to take my mind off my legitimate worries. I found this:
SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTION
Perfect.
I found the section on Theories about Spontaneous Human Combustion particularly compelling despite the spelling errors. [...]

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