Dirt & Noise

Silver Slash – 5:00 Fridays

January 13, 2012

When I was in middle school I claimed my hair was just really, really dark brown because I was tired of being so different from everyone. Truth is, I have the blackest of black hair. If you go blindfolded into a windowless room in the middle of a Minnesota winter and squeeze your eyes shut, [...]

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Drunk Driving is a Parent’s Worst Nightmare

January 11, 2012

I sat in a church pew wearing an evergreen Laura Ashley ankle length dress with a black sash and shiny black flats. I sat among my teenage peers as we gulped but couldn’t swallow the astonishment and anguish rising like pebbles of bile in our throats. We had to remind ourselves to breathe and couldn’t [...]

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Cookin’ – Wordless Wednesday

January 11, 2012

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I Like My Keurig Coffee Bold and Black

January 9, 2012

I love coffee. My favorite flavor ice cream is coffee. Coffee commercials make me cry. I rarely drank coffee in college. Coffee shops did not exist back then, unless you got a cup of joe from Gloria Jean’s at the mallor 7-11. The really wasn’t a coffee culture in the late 80s, and I remember [...]

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Youth, Only Better – 5:00 Fridays

January 6, 2012

Whenever a new year creeps in I am reminded of the magic of Time. 2012 will usher in my 44th year, inching me closer to yet another chronological milestone. That picture up there was taken when I was in my early 20s but still passing for 17. Now when I look in the mirror I [...]

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Cavalier Convertible – Wordless Wednesday

January 4, 2012

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An iPad for Christmas

January 3, 2012

Mac Daddy and I limit our sons’ screen time, probably more than most parents do. We call all screen time “media time,” and the boys know to ration it and cherish it. They have ample media opportunities but don’t abuse them. That’s not to say that they don’t whine with “Just one more minute” or [...]

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2011 Makes Way for 2012

December 31, 2011

The air is thick with equal parts regret and hope today. 2011 carried the weight of many losses and struggles. Mother Nature had beastly tantrums this year. War ravaged in all corners of the world and on urban street corners in cities across America. The economy tested our spirits and left many families the detritus [...]

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Mayan New Year – 5:00 Fridays

December 30, 2011

So 2012 is peering around the corner, waiting with her satin gloved hand to lure us in. Little does she know that the earth will tilt and bend and swerve us to her her grips without her sultry beckoning. She does not realize this, and in her winsome way, she thinks her devil-on-the-shoulder flirtations send [...]

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