Milk Tongue

Down in the basement today, looking through a giant box of sentimental crap I keep - rocks, pressed flowers, pictures, a small piece of the set of my high school production of Bye, Bye Birdie, reams of papers. Letters, cards, notes.
I found a card, girlish peach with a pair of pointe shoes on the cover, […]

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Are you an elitist? 18 revealing ways to know for sure
#8 has my name all over it. In fact, it should say:
Kate,
Barack Obama’s oratory power, strength of character, and subtle understanding of complicated issues have actually served to dissolve a venerable portion of the acidic pessimism that’s been eating into your very soul for eight […]

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I may have one by November 4th. As an antidote to all the spin, anxiety and incessant attempts by the media to read the future of our country in the dregs of our collective tea cup, I have a few links:
FiveThirtyEight.com - Electoral Projections Done Right
FactCheck.org - Nonpartisan, nonprofit. Aims to reduce the level […]

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We’re lucky to have very generous friends like Greg and Amie. They invited us to spend Labor Day weekend at their cabin in Manistee.
It was wonderful and totally triggered my ‘living in a hippie commune fantasy”.
Except instead of living off the grid and being smelly, together we’d raise a Boden-clad gaggle of meta-quoting moppets on […]

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I know it’s ridiculously early to be thinking about what to get people for Christmas - but here I am, doing it anyway. As usual, my mother-in-law is the most challenging person to shop for. What do you give a woman who has everything? I’ve already provided grandchildren! I’m pretty sure there’s no topping that, […]

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