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Moments When You Wish You’d Brought Your Slippers

January 28, 2011

Friday, January 28, 2011, 12:05am, Opryland Hotel, Nashville. Rehearsal for State Of Bliss Magical Mystery Panel. The lights were hot. My feet were sore. This is not remotely interesting, but I liked this picture. CONTEXT.

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A Word Cloud Is Worth 49 Words

November 8, 2010

My One Word, wordled. Or rather, my 49 One Words, as decided by you (duplicates were eliminated) and then transcribed into Wordle for the purposes of making a word cloud, which is so last-month-media, but still. Note that I opted to include the word ‘moist,’ despite my deep aversion to it, for the simple reason [...]

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One Word

November 4, 2010

There really aren’t words to describe the awesome that was – that is – Blissdom Canada. Unless that word is, actually, AWESOME, in which case we’re off to a decent start. We spoke a lot about words over the three days that we spent together, even in sessions that you might not have thought would [...]

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Use The Force

October 27, 2010

The best way, I find, to deal with existential angst, is to just throw yourself headlong into something completely overwhelming and avoid sleep and drink lots of coffee and talk really, really fast whoever approaches you about anything. (Hair stylist to me: “I love your hair color.” Me: “Oh yeah wow thank you no really [...]

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The Toddlerhood Of The Hands-Friendly Pants

February 6, 2010

Jasper is feeling better. Also, he has discovered the joy of shoving his hand down his pants. I feel much, much better – and am much more comfortable enjoying the camaraderie and awesome of Blissdom – and the Harry Connick Jr-ness of it all – knowing that Jasper is getting well, and that he finds [...]

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Guilt, Trip

February 3, 2010

I’d thought that I’d had my fill of beating myself up yesterday, what with blaming myself for Jasper’s pneumonia and all, but really, there’s no such thing as too much self-flagellation when you’re a mother, is there? After a brief flirtation with self-forgiveness that lasted, roughly, the duration of the season premiere of Lost, I’ve [...]

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A Thousand Words

February 9, 2009

Jasper at Blissdom Conference, Nashville, February 2009 How he looks in that photo? That’s how I felt at Blissdom this weekend. Bemused, fascinated, rumpled. Bright-eyed despite the sleeplessness. Happy to be in thick of things despite feeling, at times, overwhelmed. It was lovely. I’m exhausted and at a loss as to how to describe such [...]

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