Last night we threw our tiny gingerbread house / engagement party because naturally, any real engagement party should involve frosting and miniatures. As we suspected might occur, our friends THREW DOWN AT THE CRAFT TABLE …
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SUCCESS!
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Writegirl FTW.
The inevitable sadness of today was shaken and restructured and slapped silly by my first workshop with Writegirl. It’s an organization that matches writer girls with writer gals, teens with professionals, for a myriad of …
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Hey Elli: You’re Great.
Cousin Elli — who works in Child Protection for the FBI, so is an FBI agent? Yes? Is that how it works? — texted last night with an apology for missing Pete’s wedding, and it …
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YES YOU FLAN!
Sister Carrie turned 32 yesterday, so she flew to LA for 24 hours to stay with her hubs at the Roosevelt hotel, where we plopped poolside and drank Rose for 5 hours with the Russian …
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My lady
The happiest of birthdays to the luminous, adventurous lil miss Charlotte St. Julien Patton, my childhood friend and travel buddy. This summer, we will be taking our propensity to drink rum before noon and perch …
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CAN’T WAIT / CAN’T WAIT / CAN’T WAIT
TO GO TO EDINBURGH IN TWO WEEKS TIME AND SEE LILY’S PLAY ABOUT A BUNCH OF HISTORICAL REENACTORS AT HAMPTON COURT PALACE WHERE WE WENT SOME YEARS AGO AND FROLICKED ABOUT AND ATE CLOTTED CREAM …
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Four Score and some other time units ago….
Obama’s first inauguration, I was working a day job with the loveliest coworkers perhaps ever. Since we liked each other, and also liked witnessing history, and wouldn’t kick day drinking outta bed, we headed to …
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Oh smack!
I just remembered these! Remember when you used to have to make and bring in valentines for your entire class and you bought them by the box and stuck candy in them and dropped them …
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PRIDE
I am quite proud of this cake I made for Sarah’s Bday (clearly.) Recent cakes have been shoddy or haphazard and made me feel like I did NOT listen to my mother when she taught …
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Oh. Man.
For those of you NOT on Facebook (which no longer includes my Mom as I set her up yesterday. Hiiiiii Mom) and have yet to see 1100 pictures of my HS reunion, here’s the briefest …