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There have been two bookplate contests (in which I designed an original bookplate for the winning entry), get out of jail contests (in which I mailed a laminated [...]

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Life and language with TMA

March 4, 2010

You’ll have to pardon the details that are about to begin.
Today at work, I needed to visit the restroom. Too much tea, perhaps. As I was sitting in the middle stall of the restroom that we share with the neighboring hair school, one of the students came in and approached the far stall.
“OMG!” she said, [...]

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Dress shop.

March 3, 2010

Across the street from where I work is a bridal and formal wear dress shop. The owner fills the windows with dresses on full-size mannequins, tastefully displaying just a small selection of what she has inside. While working, we watch the dresses through our own plate-glass windows, watching as new ones are put up and then [...]

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Removing the Urban from Harvest.

March 2, 2010

Urban Harvest is a annual event in Bismarck, a combination street fair/farmer’s market held in late summer on Thursdays in the downtown area. It is, to be specific, held right at the corner of where I work. Last year was the first year I was able to really enjoy the event, since I’m new to [...]

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Reading re-entry.

March 1, 2010

My reading life goes in spurts and phases. I might tear through four books and then not pick up a book for two months. At times, I’ve even attempted to organize and socialize my reading.
Failure.
There’s no point in feeling guilty about it, I have since decided, since there’s such a long line ahead of that [...]

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Smoke.

March 1, 2010

Late in the afternoon, yesterday, as I was starting to finish up with my cupcake baking for the coming days, my cell phone rang. It was my friend; we don’t talk on the phone a lot (I don’t like talking on the phone), so I immediately wondered what was going on.
“I have to tell you [...]

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Steep Me a Cup of Tea.

February 28, 2010
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I am addicted to the tea from Steep Me, a specialty tea shop here in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Visiting the shop is a fun experience in its own right; it’s clean and peaceful and airy and full of great pottery and all things related to tea.
My favorite teas — that is, the teas that make up [...]

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Intersections.

February 26, 2010

Walking home from work yesterday, I got through the second intersection on my route just in time to be a spectator to a man cursing and swearing at his wife/girlfriend. She’d pulled over to pick him up in front of a clinic, and he was angry because she hadn’t seen him immediately and had made [...]

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Red flag, green flag.

February 25, 2010

In elementary school, we had color books that taught us about “red flag, green flag” touches. The focus was on child abuse, and finding out if kids had been abused. There were line drawings of nude kids in the coloring book at the end, after pages of discussing various acceptable and non-acceptable touches.
Our instructions were [...]

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And we stay.

February 24, 2010
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Without the formula of sound,
It passes, and we stay:
– A Light Exists in Spring
I find myself reading Emily Dickinson’s poetry, not because of what she does or does not say, but because she said it without an audience. She never really had one in her lifetime, writing her poems in a vacuum. Eventually all but entombed [...]

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Brutus and the failed checkride.

February 21, 2010
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This is what happens when a cat attempts to fly an airplane, which is always a mistake. They are too short to adequately maintain visual contact with the exterior as well as the interior of the plane, and are prone to curling up and falling asleep. The lack of opposable thumbs does not help. [...]

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