December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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ListenCatholic Throwdown with Stephen Colbert and Jack...
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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“Let me mention one or two things about Christmas. Of course you’ve all...”
– Annie Dillard, “Feast Days,” Tickets For A Prayer Wheel [via oblations]
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“I close the bathroom linen closet. Pick up a brush to swish toilets. I...”
– Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts I’ve meant to read this for ages and just haven’t gotten around to it and I can’t believe it. It’s like Annie Dillard, but more explicitly Christian* and more domestic — so far, no one has gone on any Arctic expeditions. *though of course...
Dec 20th
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oops!
Who else has a mom who accidentally posts on her daughter’s account? Really? Just me? If you were on just now, you might have seen a post that seemed to be me celebrating my own visit to Tallahassee. (Also, it prominently featured a photo of me and John, circa 2004, on our way to a contra dance prom.) That’s what you get when you leave yourself logged onto your parents’...
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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“I think we are good, we’ve got flight # 2257 coming in DAY AFTER TOMORROW...”
– email from my mom, who(m?) I love heaps and heaps
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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“Last May, for my 70th birthday party, I asked guests not to bring gifts. Instead...”
– Fran Korten, “Let’s Unstuff the Holidays” (Yes! Magazine) (As I recall this is a long-standing tradition in the Shire.)
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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my sister is my hero
So, my sister deals with trolls all the time in her gig as editor-in-chief for a fashion and pop culture blog. At Thanksgiving, when she was visiting, she shared her policy: If she acts friendly and addresses them directly in the comments, they almost always back off and react sweetly. I got to try it when I got into the program office after break. Someone (a fellow student!) had written,...
Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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more on custom week coming after Christmas
…particularly on how it made my holiday shopping much easier. But for now, let me just say that when I had trouble with the codes for Gem Kitty (a seemingly inevitable hurdle in these custom orders), someone got back to me in under a half hour and fixed it. On a Sunday. I am not much of a jewelry girl myself, but dang. Shop there.
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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free christmas jams: joel rakes: festive mood... →
His “Angels (We Have Heard On High/From the Realms of Glory”) is set to be my #1 favorite Christmas song for 2011. (If you’ve got a little spare cash, last year’s favorite was probably Rosie Thomas’s “Christmas Don’t Be Late” .)
Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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