Category Archives: Top Tuesdays / Friday Five

Friday Five: Musical loves I owe to my friend Honey

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

My friend Honey turns a year older tomorrow. In my teens she introduced me to some of the musical artists who have spoken to and for me so, so many times in my life. Happy birthday, Honey. The world’s better with you in … Continue reading →

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Friday TEN: my favorite search results from the last month

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

Two things you need to know about these search results before you read them: 1) Every single one of them is real and unaltered. Each one of them was typed by a real human being somewhere, and somehow their search … Continue reading →

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Friday Five: Reasons this is going to be my best birthday weekend ever

Posted on March 9, 2012 by

1. What I’m doing right now. I’m not at work. I’m in our favorite coffee shop, sitting across from my beauty-full wife who has stuck with me for a decade of changes, and we have the entire day together alone. … Continue reading →

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Friday Five: Movies that should have gotten Best Picture nominations over the last five years

Posted on February 24, 2012 by

1. (2006) Children of Men – The screenplay has flaws, mainly in its need for the characters to explain things to the audience they would never actually say in real life (the same problem that cursed Inception), but the acting, cinematography, … Continue reading →

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Friday Five: Stuff my daughter said last year that totally needs to be on a t-shirt

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

1. We’re in the exit room, and there’s a volcano. I have no solid memory of where we were when this gem came out, and I seriously doubt the setting provided any context whatsoever anyway. Because seriously, what context could … Continue reading →

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Friday Five: Things I want to be sure to do during the next year of blogging

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

1. Include a picture in every post. Visual appeal is the last possible thing I think about when I publish a blog post. It isn’t the first thing I notice about your blog posts. But I currently have way too many 1,000 … Continue reading →

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Top Twenty Five Tuesday: Baffling Search Results that Have Led People to My Blog

Posted on May 17, 2011 by

One of the most amusing sections of my blog stats page is the little window that tells me what people have searched for to find my blog. Most of them make sense. Some of them do not. Guess which are … Continue reading →

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Top Twenty Eight Tuesday: Books I’m Totally Buying as Soon as Our Tax Refund Gets Here

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

Because that’s how we roll. We spend mortgage money on books. We make Top 28 lists. We are pretentious. We make you deal with it. I might not get all of these, but the possibility is in play. The great thing is that … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: The Moments that Make Parenting Totally Worth It

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

I wrote in a Top Tuesday post a few weeks ago about the hardest parts of being a parent, and I want to balance that today by listing some of the things that make the whole wrestling match worth it. The … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: The Hardest Parts of Being a Parent

Posted on February 8, 2011 by

1. Your time is no longer your own. 2. You can no longer hide the character flaws you thought no one knew about. 3. If you never had a temper problem, you have one now. 4. The times they absolutely … Continue reading →

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