I’m starting to think about MdS as a restful vacation with a bit running thrown in. I’m not underestimating the desert...
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Nueces 50 (minus 44), Baby Zombies, and Saintly Husbands
Stephen Colbert interviewed Anne-Marie Slaughter after she wrote an article titled “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” in The Atlantic in 2012. I haven’t read the article because, well yeah — see the title. Colbert’s intro pretty much summed up last week for me. “… on whether women can have [...]
Liza
Everything is Awesome.
You know what I’m talking about parents of young kids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTqXEQ2l-Y Asa wakes up these days singing the theme song from the Lego Movie. “Everything is Awesome!” There are certainly worse ways for a kid to wake up. “Everything is cool when you’re part of a team! Everything is awesome [...]
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Back on the Wagon, Links and Dallas
Hi peeps. Sorry to leave you all with that rant post for so long. The time between that post and this sentence has disappeared in a blur of teething, baby snot, a bit of fast running, and a broken car. I took our car to get inspected and have the oil changed yesterday morning. That law-abiding maintenance was obviously a mistake [...]
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Behind: A Running Mother’s Rant
I am standing at the computer typing with one hand rocking a grumpy baby back and forth. I have not showered or washed last night’s dishes. Clean laundry is in piles on beds and in baskets. Dirty laundry is still unpacked in bags from the weekend in the garage. My desk is hidden under paperwork. I’ve stopped updating [...]
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Race Directing: Behind the RV Curtain
Well, I don’t actually have any Rolling-Stone-General-McChrystal-esque expose on Joe and Joyce Prusaitis and Tejas Trails – but it was a good blog title. Or maybe “The Runaway Yeti Cooler.” I told Joe that I felt a title like Magician’s Apprentice would have been more appropriate than Assistant Race Director [...]
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