iPod Random 10

Another fun idea I’m stealing from verbatim, but Karen told me it was OK :-).

When It Comes to Love – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Get Out the Map – Indigo Girls
Utopia Parkway – Fountains of Wayne
Havin’ a Hunch – David Shiner (Seussical the Musical)
We Tell Ourselves – Clint Black
Your Mother Should Know – The Beatles
Joy to the World – Three Dog Night
Shoot the Moon – Norah Jones
Sultans of Swing – Dire Straits
Wrapped Around Your Finger -The Police

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TGIF, since it’s an excuse for a rambling post

I took a vacation day yesterday. It was supposed to have been today, but we were notified on Tuesday that the maintenance staff would be changing A/C filters and checking smoke detectors in all the apartments in our building on Thursday, and Miss Gypsy can’t be left home alone if anything like that is happening, so I switched days. (I learned this the hard way in my old apartment – let’s just say I’m surprised […]

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This item in the Huffington Post definitely struck a chord. A few quotes: The truth is that when people divorce, little thought is given to the fact that it is not only the husband and wife who are enduring loss but also their extended families. (snip) Considering that the number of divorced Americans rose from 4.3 million in 1970 to 18.3 million in 1996 and that very few studies have examined how divorce affects the […]

BTT: “Desperation”

This week’s “Booking Through Thursday” query: What’s the most desperate thing you’ve read because it was the only available reading material? If it was longer than a cereal box or an advertisement, did it turn out to be worth your while? I’m really not sure what it could have been. Probably some pamphlet in a waiting room somewhere, and I can’t remember – or have blocked it out – because it wasn’t worth the time, […]

My first “Wiki Wednesday”

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10-Minute Writers: What I Do…

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Do kids change your ambitions?

This week’s “Speak Your Mind” topic on Work It, Mom! is “Have you become less ambitious in your career and personal goals since having kids?” It’s a tough question to answer for me, since parenthood, career, and adulthood pretty much all coincided and it’s tough to tease out exactly how they affected each other. I’m inclined to say “yes,” but it’s more like my ambitions have been scaled to the framework of managing family and […]

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The PlanetsDava Sobel from the back cover: With her blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, Dava Sobel used her rare and luminous gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story to garner rave reviews and attract readers from across the literary spectrum. Now, in “The Planets,” Sobel brings her full talents to bear on what is perhaps her most ambitious subject to date – the planets of our solar system. […]

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Just in case you were wondering…

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Single-minded

The truth is, I’ve spent most of my adult life married (from age 19 – yes, I know it was too young, but there was a baby on the way – to 38), and it’s been less than a year since I reclaimed that status. Even so, some points in Leslie’s “On Balance” commentary reviewing the new book Now and Not Yet by Jennifer Marshall, which examines single life from a conservative Christian perspective, struck […]