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When I was in the sixth grade, one of our projects for language arts class was to teach our classmates how to do something. It didn’t matter what it was, it just needed to be something written out in steps in the most clear (and preferably concise) manner so as to convey what it was […]

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Guess what y’all! I’m the lamest blogger ever! Wooo! The good news, however, is that I’ve been doing some stuff in its place. We’ve got some garden action brewing in the front yard, veggies and flowers both; I’ve been buying fabric like a champ, and even sewing some of it; I have encroached on totally […]

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Whooosh! Ziiip! fling-flang-foom!

That’s about what it feels like in my brain the last couple weeks: I can’t seem to concentrate on any one thing without immediately getting sidetracked. There are some up sides to it, don’t get me wrong, but it’s sort of taxing. I went to the ABC Sale this Saturday past, and found […]

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You know what? I think more inspiring to me than anything else is Change. When change happens, when you can sniff it out in the air, when it falls from the sky and lands on your shirtsleeve–that’s what can really get me thinking and working and moving. And of course it’s much more awesome when […]

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Lonestar! You’re Doing It!!

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Look! Look at you! I mean me! It’s about time–I know. I’m sorry, me. I’ll do better this year, ‘kay?
So this is the second year in a row where I’ve prefaced many a January conversation with the phrase, “I think new year’s resolutions are kind of dumb, but x and y and z…”. Last year […]

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It shall be called: The Morgan.

Monday, April 9th, 2007

So how often does it happen that you’re all dumbfounded for gift ideas? Massaging slippers are sort of dumb, retro Anchor Hocking highball glasses on ebay are crazy expensive, and Chia Pets are inedible and therefore even worse than light-up yo-yos. Am I right?

So I decided for the most recently completed Round O’ Holidays that […]

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