*** You gotta kinda love that quote. 😉 Let’s talk about gossip. It’s the ultimate double edged sword: How delicious it feels to wield it, but how it stings when that blade is turned on us. If we’re being honest, we’ve all been on both sides of that sword. Today,…
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There are several things I do when I go home to Pittsburgh in the summer: 1 – Take my shoes off and feel real grass under my feet again–actual soft, won’t-slice-open-your-toes, Northern grass. 2 – Sit in the cool basement and vegetate. (Because that’s another thing we don’t have in Florida–basements.)…
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Find your rubber gloves and get ready to rock, my friends. Mama’s on a serious binge-fest around these parts, and I’m taking you all along for the ride. In my never-ending bid to streamline our lives over here at Headquarters Family Circus, I’ve been dabbling with the concept of minimalism….
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Hey all! So the family and I are preparing for a trip back up north to Pittsburgh, my hometown, and I can’t wait. A funny thing happens when you move as an adult, especially when all the Big Things in your life happened in your hometown–born; raised; all levels of school,…
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*** Thank God for Steve Jobs. More specifically, thank God for Apple, which made the iPhone, which has built-in voice dictation, which I use no less than 75% of the time to do just about everything in my life. I’m talking about responding to text messages, writing emails, and writing…
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There are lots of things that I had to adjust to when I moved from Pittsburgh to Florida. The obvious: I said goodbye to almost all of my family, who still live in Pittsburgh, which was tough. I also said goodbye to most of my winter wardrobe—and gladly, for the most…
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Do you have a 7-week-old? A teenager? A puppy? Heck, even a whining coworker qualifies. What I’m asking is, is there anyone in your life who’s zapping a little–or a lot–of your energy lately? If the answer is “yes,” (and I’m gonna bet it is), then you know what I think, my…
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*** You know the one thing that’s harder to do than sleep when you have kids? To keep your house organized. (You will also learn the dire importance of keeping your toy space relatively clean after you step on your first Lego with a bare foot. DEAR GOD, THE SHEER…
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I spent the morning in Target (because it is a day ending in “y,” and also #summertime, and #3kidsunder4), and a funny thing occurred to me, as I swept past the toy section with my three kids–desperately trying, and failing, to distract them from the sea of plastic we were…
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So. I had a post all planned and ready to go up today, and then my friend Nicole dropped off the most amazing biscotti on my front porch (because Italians do awesome things like drop off delicious homemade food to your doorstep, unsolicited), and it threw the most delicious and…
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