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Dear Technology Companies,
When you’re done patting yourselves on the backs for being all “revolutionary” and for “redefining” the “paradigm” — whatever that means — and you’re not too busy plotting where to put the next climbing wall at headquarters to promote “synergy” amongst team members during “trust training” or whatever the hell corporate trainers are [...]

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the rain in spain

I just had the most lovely conversation with one of my favorite people on the internets, Tony. He lives way over in the UK, and some months ago he talked me into getting a microphone so we could chat over the computer wires, a feat which I am still amazed and flummoxed by. I can [...]

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the queen of refuse, the queen of filth

How did I ever allow my life to be filled with such trash?
Literally! I just went into a totally unscheduled cleaning frenzy on the back porch, which, granted, we use as a mudroom and trash/recycling center, and I ended up hauling TEN LAWN-SIZED TRASH BAGS TO THE DUMP. And that’s not even counting the extra [...]

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princess and the peahead

I came down with a most strange, unidentified virus this week that impelled me — against my will and all prior training — to spend great towering piles of money on home furnishings.
Egad!
It started with my growing displeasure with our continued use of a fifteen-year-old futon as a couch. The damn thing was so uncomfortable [...]

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she wishes for winter, some past, some future

Is there a more fitting end to summer than a cold, wet and rainy labor day weekend? I think not.
If it were sunny and bright and warm, how much more wrenching it would be to say goodbye! As it is, it is evident that summer has already fled, and we are all just loafing around [...]

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