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Wide Lawns and Narrow Minds

• Happy New Year!

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  Happy New Year everyone. Get ready because tonight marks the beginning of a year long onslaught of news stories, articles and TV programs devoted to the coming apocalypse. By next December you'll be so sick of hearing about it that you'll wish the world was ending, which it isn't by' [...]
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• Parenting is Not a Career

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  Recently I had the pleasure of hearing two men make ignorant and insensitive remarks to their wives regarding their parenting responsibilities and the more I think about it, the madder I get.
  
  The first man, whose wife was pregnant, was asked by a friend if he was ready for [...]
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• Merry Christmas!

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  Have a wonderful holiday everyone. All I can tell you is that right before Thanksgiving I had the idea for my next book - a collection of essays about my family's long history of over the top holiday disasters called "O Holy Shit." The Christmas we've had this year has' [...]
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• Merry Christmas - Frosted Almond Shortbreads

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  As a Christmas gift to you, I'm posting the recipe for the best cookies I have ever eaten. They are so good that they caused an honest to God fight. Make these and watch people beat the hell out of one another.
  
  Frosted Almond Shortbreads
  
  1/4 cup' [...]
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• Don't Forget Your Mail Carrier

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  I love my mailman. His name is Brian and he comes every day at four. I hear him singing and it always brightens my day. I look forward to him coming up my walkway, earbuds in and singing away to whatever is playing on his iPod. If I'm outside, he'll [...]
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• The Playground Scene

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  Only in South Florida can the playground be a "scene." I swear to God. It's ridiculous.
  
  I thought I'd take my little one to the park to run around a little. They have bucket swings, which she likes and lots of slides, which she really really likes although she's [...]
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• I Fail at Mommy Group

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  I think that I am a very good and capable mother to Baby Lawns, but I am a terrible "Mommy" and by "Mommy" I mean that I am just not one of those women who can identify themselves wholly as "Mommies." Like Mommy Bloggers. Mommy is who they are. These [...]
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