Concerning

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This random-but-fortuitous spam comment was left on my cross-dressing Halloween post:

As I typed it, Mr. Jaunty told me about this.

Concerning, indeed.

Some days, I’d give anything to secede from the human race.

This spam comment will be my epitaph:

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Make yours here.

Mama Said: Apples

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“Years ago I saw a movie that really impressed me….Maybe called All the Winters That Have Been* or something…I can’t remember the title, but it has Richard Chamberlain playing a guy who visits his uncle in Alaska and falls in love with a local village girl—half eskimo half irish, I think. They go to [...]

Green and Brown

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Only after bragging about turning my tank top into a halter did I realize… that… it… still doesn’t fit. Curses! For now, let’s call it a ‘layering piece’:

Green shirt – Personal Identity, second-hand Printed tank – St. John’s Bay? Second-hand, altered by me Skirt – Mossimo (2007?) [...]

Old Spice. REAL Old.

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Back in 2008, unclutterer.com wrote a nifty post on the Shelf Life of Spices. They linked to McCormick, Durkee, and Spice Island databases designed to check the age of your kitchen spices.

So neat! By entering the code stamped on the bottom of your spice tin/bottle, you learn what day, year, and possibly even SHIFT [...]

On Makeup

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rabbitwrite.com has declared this No Makeup Week, and I’m hurling in my two cents:

Because I dropped out of school after 5th grade, I dodged a lot of cosmetic peer pressure. But at 14, I asked my mother for makeup. She suggested an Almay pressed powder and clear mascara. Both were practically invisible, but I [...]

Nine Things I Learned at the Beach

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Once, my grandparents took me on a Caribbean cruise. And once, my ex-boyfriend “Shortcake” took me to St. Augustine. But it wasn’t until yesterday’s trip to Island Beach State Park in New Jersey that I had a chance to swim in an ocean.

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Here’s what I Learned:

1. As you [...]

Much Ado About Making Do

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Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.

Let’s discuss grooming:

I have two kinds of tinted moisturizer; Organic Wear, which is too dark/yellowish for me, and Burt’s Bees, which has separated and become clumpy. Any day I wear makeup, I wonder “Do I have time to smoosh the lumps [...]

Dickens’ Fur Coat…

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I have just begun reading Dickens’ Fur Coat and Charlotte’s Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England’s Great Victorian Novelists by Daniel Pool.

If you thought the title was wordy, feast your eyes on this sentence from page 13: “In the narrow, dingy street just north of St. Paul’s Cathedral in the heart of [...]

Tank to Halter Alteration

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Today it dawned on me that autumn in Pennsylvania is going to be very, very different from autumn in New Mexico. We’re running out of time to wear summer clothes, and I never showed you my tank-to-halter alteration:

Top – St. John’s Bay, maybe? Second-hand Belt – Steve Madden via [...]