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on January 26, 2016 at 11:33 am ×
Try as I might, there’s simply no way I’ll ever again bear witness to a pow-wow of my face and my feet. At 40 years of age, I’m not even half as flexible as I once was, so sadly, my toenail-biting career has come to an end. A moment of […]
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on December 23, 2015 at 10:05 pm ×
*OWTK is a proud ambassador for #TracFoneFamily and received compensation for this story. All opinions express below are unbiased and honest, as always. I don’t mean to brag, but I’m kind of a zen master when it comes to buying Christmas gifts for friends, family and the kids we sponsor […]
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on December 23, 2015 at 12:06 pm ×
Before she even places the basket down, with its starched green and red, holly-trimmed linen nestled down like a blanket fit for a newborn baby king, my hand is inside with designs on robbing the cradle. Settle down, y’all. No babies — royal, biblical or otherwise — were snatched, stolen […]
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on December 15, 2015 at 7:00 am ×
Do any of your people send out those year-end holiday newsletters in lieu of, or in addition to, Christmas cards? It’s a neat idea, it totally is, especially if you don’t spent your days lurking on their Facebook page. The downside to this kind of annual summary of key family […]
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on December 7, 2015 at 2:51 pm ×
Netflix, along with NHL Center Ice (go Red Wings!) and FuboTV (Barca! Barca! Barca!), enabled us to cut cable in 2015. That’s like $140 extra bucks in my wallet each month. For this I am thankful. Oh wait, I’m a holiday behind. We don’t give thanks now, for now we […]
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on December 7, 2015 at 12:21 pm ×
It’s less a discovery than it is a giving up of belief. My family is standing on the precipice of a strange new world, a world in which Santa is a fictional character and 100% of all gifts nestled neatly under the tree are dutifully purchased from local stores or […]
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on December 4, 2015 at 7:39 pm ×
I have partnered with Life of Dad and Old Spice for this promotion. Every picture tells a story, as the song goes, but the same is not necessarily true of every smell. At least, not every smell tells a sweetly scented story. And that is the story of the first […]
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on November 30, 2015 at 6:26 pm ×
I am so incredibly happy to have partnered with Life of Dad and KIND for this promotion. I contend that much of my personal success in life can be directly attributed to kindness and to gratitude. I asked this of a gigantic corporation while my entire family was away on […]