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Christmas

Happy Christmas Eve, everybody! It’s one of my favorite days of the year, so I can’t spend much time on the computer. Time to get ready for Christmas Eve dinner, family, Oliver trying to destroy every ribbon in sight, looking at lights and luminaries, and then presents! I hope you’re feeling jolly today. And tomorrow. [...]

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Class Anxiety

In Atlanta, I stayed in the townhouse of my friend’s sister, and let me tell you–it was gorgeous. Perfect. If you cut pages out of a Pottery Barn catalog, pasted in items from Anthropologie, and threw in a dash of Martha Stewart, you would have a picture of this place. So lovely. And if you [...]

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Star Wars Christmas Party

Last night, we had friends over for our first-ever Star Wars Christmas Special party. If you’ve never heard of this before, allow me to scar you for life: in 1978, there was a Star Wars-themed television special that followed Chewbacca’s family and their exploits on “life day” (i.e. Wookiee Christmas, or something like that). It [...]

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Ho Ho Ho

Today, I ordered some prints online from Wal-Mart and went to pick them up while my car was getting its oil changed (on time! Well, only a day late. Dad will be proud). When I rolled my defective, two-wheels-broken cart up to the photo center, I saw a gathering of people, a little collective, all [...]

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Oliver Helps Decorate for Christmas

I love decorating for Christmas. Actually, let me be specific: I love having the house decorated for Christmas, and I love the moments just after having finished putting up said decorations. Less fun is all the work in the middle–ornaments strewn everywhere, bits of fake tree floating through the air. And less fun than all [...]

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