InnerTeub

In a move of shocking stupidity, I inserted myself into a comment thread on Facebook that quickly dissolved into discussing the validity of contraception as health. There’s no one to blame but myself, but I mean, COME ON. When faced with comments like:  ”contraception is not a health issue. Contraception is something to prevent pregnancy [...]

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I find I write here more when I’m reading a lot; good books will get my mind moving and narrating and I find it easy to use this space as an outlet.Which is a segue into why I haven’t been writing here: I’ve been reading SUCH CRAP. It started innocently enough: I was in the Charlotte [...]

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A poem sent to me by mother, which is fitting given how much she and I really enjoy ourselves some good shoe shopping (although to be fair that’s about 80% “the company we have” and 20% “the shoes we find”) (maybe 70/30) Shoe Magic by Nikki Grimes The shoe rackis stackedwith promise, With dreamswaitingto wake. [...]

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I’ve been traveling for the past three weeks, with one more week to go. I don’t mind this kind of travel; it’s a part of my job, not that frequent, the change of pace comes at the right moment , and while this kind of whirlwind means most personal administration gets forgotten (email? Blog? Eh?) [...]

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Day 3: The JCrew Saturday Pant is A Slippery Slope to Wearing Leggings to work, a photo by LizScott on Flickr. I didn’t do it, but Reader: it was close.

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My husband to me, just now: “When you come home, be sure to check out the ski section of the garage.” Please note: the ski section is next to the bike section which is adjacent to the work section which holds the power washing station, which can be seen from the MooseTheDog station, and is [...]

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Yeeeeaaaars ago I belonged to this message board at Television Without Pity. It was a message board for people who watched The West Wing, but this particular board was for non-show related talk, and I’d feel slightly embarrassed about being such an active member of an Internet community except: a) It’s almost 2012 and I [...]

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My stepdaughter spends Christmas with her mom’s family, which means Christmas for my side of the family is just 8 adults, no kids. This means that in addition to lots of late nights boozing and late mornings sleeping, our Christmas shopping lists are different from a lot of my friends who make the holiday about their little [...]

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I put my running watch away when we moved to Colorado. I had to. The combination of altitude (6000 feet), hills (1100 ft elevation gain on my neighborhood loop) and weight gain (moving + holidays+ life stress) had done some no good very bad things to my running pace, and I found myself getting more [...]

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