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I have a huge post brewing about being a faculty spouse, but until I get it all worked out, I have to tell you about my adventures with Geeky Girl today. We went shopping. It was mission shopping. We had specific things on our list to get: leaf blower, cds, sweaters. We had to be…

Bleh. I fell a little short of my word count goal this morning. I’m at 16,500. I had wanted to get to 17,500 with an ultimate goal of 20,000 by the end of today. The good thing is I’m getting to a part that’s mostly already written in my head. It is, in many ways,…

There are many poems I could put here, that both honor the veterans and the sacrifices they made and question the motives of war. I want to put here a poem I’ve heard read a few times, written by an old teacher of mine (and of artichoke heart, I believe). I have a quite distinct…

13,800. Getting there, slowly but surely. Actually, I got about 2500 words written in an hour. Geeky Boy came down with his friend and Geeky Girl. GB: How’s it going, mom? How many words do you have?Me: Hmm, let me check. (clicking on profile)Friend: What are you doing?GB: (positively beaming): She’s writing a novel.Friend: Really?…

There is an extraordinary situation that’s developed over one of Nels’ students published papers. If you haven’t read about it yet, you should. It is a good example of how contentious this whole issue of parenting is. There’s a real subtext here of how parenting is not valued in any context. Please consider donating to…

I got a little write-up on our college news site. Very exciting. Mr. Geeky gets a mention at the bottom, but most importantly, Michelle, of Culture of Chemistry fame. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

As you might imagine, I’ve slowed down a little because of yesterday’s election. I went to bed early Monday night since I had to get up at 5:30. Then last night, after 14 hours of poll working, I pretty much crashed. So two nights in a row of not writing. I got in 1000 words…

Yay! Here’s an article about some of the races we won and how close we were to winning some others. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

First off, I won. Sort of. The way it works is, there are two of us who run for inspector, one R and one D. Whoever gets the most votes gets the title of majority inspector and the “loser” gets minority inspector. Kind of the way the presidential election used to work. I got 148…

There are local elections in lots of places. This is a PSA to go out and vote. I, myself, am on the ballot here. Woo hoo! I’m up for minority inspector. No one is running against me, so I think I might win. Here, the biggest race is for ward commissioner. Our current commissioner is…