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If you know me at all, you know I teeter on the fence between wanting to share and wanting to hide—under a big BIG black cloak of privacy. I do want to blog. I want to voice my opinions. I want to spill my guts. I want to pour my heart out. I just...
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Yeah, so this is kind of a cheaters’ way out of my first NABLOPOMO post but whatever. I’m doing it and you can look forward to all kinds of pablum here EVERY DAY for a month. If you have no idea what I’m talking about… NABLOPOMO is this thing where you commit to post every...
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I actually considered writing this post on the flight home when everything was still fresh in my mind but then I thought better of it and took a nap. PRIORITIES, PEOPLE! Every time I come back from BlogHer I grapple with this post because I want to name every person I hugged, met, reunited with,...
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This 4th of July, we decided to go to the beach to watch fireworks. This particular beach has a lot of activity going on every evening and on Independence Day, even more so. After letting the kids play on the playground for a while, we made our way down to the water. Though the sun...
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YOUR FAVORITE PARTY GIRLS STRIKE AGAIN! Just in case you haven’t heard..we’re havin’ another pre-BlogHer party and this? Is one party in which not a SINGLE nose will be pressed against the glass. No. Why? Because it’s the 3rd annual PEOPLE’S PARTY and YOU’RE ALL INVITED!  There WILL be free beverages of the adult variety...
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On Tuesday April 7th, the world unexpectedly lost a precious little girl named Maddie Spohr, age 17 months. I wrote about Maddie’s passing a couple days ago and my heart continues to ache for Maddie’s parents, Heather and Mike Spohr. I can’t even begin to imagine what they are going through right now. In this...
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I was going to do the obligatory post-conference recap but really, other than to say I had got loads of lovely sleep, froze my ass off, ate way too much meat, had a lot of fun with my peeps from the “bad” table and beyond, met an awesomelicious new friend, enjoyed all the panels...
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On my old blog, I would hate myself for doing a post like this; all meandering-ish, directionless—BUT ON THIS BLOG? I will do whatever dumb, ill-conceived thing I want! It’s a whole new game and I? Am a GAMECHANGER! Am I the only one who is already sick of that stupid word? Also sick of?  Social...
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Tagline. Notice I don’t have one. I mean it’s not like a requirement or anything but sometimes it can help illuminate a bit about the author. So…in keeping with the caffeine/coffee/I-stay-up-way-too-late thing that is the inspiration for this blog’s name, I started mentally toying with taglines. Best one yet: Always Up. Always Hot. lololololol I crack myself up. What?...
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Last night, as I was searching in vain for a Twitter app for Facebook that actually works worth a crap (because NONE of them do) I came across someone gushing about Twitter and how it has rendered blogs all stone-agey and shit and how we don’t need them anymore because Twitter gives us,...
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