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April 2010

Goodbye, Warrior Fridge

Essays
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In 2004 we finished renovating our house. Mostly. Part of that was buying new appliances, and I had the coolest new stainless steel mega fridge available. But… One year later I stared at it in horror. No, it wasn’t out of style. It was full of maggots. Hurricane Katrina came and went, and spared our [...]

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Train to be an Early Morning Person

Lifehacking
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For most of my adult life I was a night person. Between grad school, my TV news jobs, and my goth inclinations, staying up late was required. But oh how I love shaking up life, and now that I have a home office, and do writing and property managing while juggling an 11 month-old and [...]

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State of the Garden: April

Gardening
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It’s all my fault. I wanted to get rid of the aggressive weeds. They kept growing up between the cracked and sunken bricks in my backyard. These bricks were around the swimming pool, and being on a rumbling city bus route had beaten them up good. I wanted to re-pave the whole thing using the [...]

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