Category: opinions (big book of)
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Life After Amazon & Target: How to Boycott
The thing to know about me is: I’m a petty bitch. I will boycott a company or organization at the drop of a MAGA hat. I will slam my wallet shut at the mere sniff of a policy I don’t like. Boycotts have been my preferred method of protest for ages. Not because I think…
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A Time Out from Travel Posts: Dealing with Election Grief
Welp, that election did not go as I expected. I am devastated. Crushed. Gutted. Somehow, this time hurt worse than last time. I really did have hope. I could not (and did not) believe that the ancient, racist, misogynist, traitorous, rapist felon, fraudster, who was twice impeached, stole government documents, and incited an insurrection to…
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How is the Year Almost Over? (Welcome to Nothing Week)
Well, hellloooo. And welcome to my favorite week of the year – the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. That weird in-between time/no-time where no one is working or doing anything productive. We’re all just lying around, embracing full decay mode. Just like all the memes on social media have suggested. We’ve certainly been…
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Can’t We Just Stay in Our Bubble?
It’s official – COVID lockdown has ended. I know this because I’m pretty sure we were the last holdouts and we have finally loosened up our protocols. We are no longer sheltering in place, just the two of us and the cats. We’ve slowly peeked our heads out of our collective shells and gradually started…
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A Necessary Evil: Summer Sweaters
It’s mid-May and I am sitting in my home office, sipping hot tea, wearing fuzzy house slippers and a summer sweater over a button up shirt. That’s right: a summer sweater. Growing up in West Texas, I never understood the concept of a summer sweater. Sure, I’d see them all the time in catalogs like…
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A List of Distractions: Things to Buy, Eat, Watch and Listen To
We have a friend who is a bit under the weather and is stuck in a hospital bed for the foreseeable future. Which just totally sucks. I mean, on the one hand: laying around just watching endless episodes of “Fixer Upper” is totally my jam. But on the other hand: there’s only like, five seasons…
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Procrastinating on my New Year’s Resolutions
Hey, have you heard? It’s a new year or something. And we’re all supposed to make big resolutions or goals or intentions or whatever. I’ll admit it: I do get caught up in that whole resolutions business. It’s just the excitement of closing a chapter on something old and getting a fresh new start on…
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A Little Summer/Fall Reading List
This summer, instead of working on my tan or my fitness or my blog producing skills (hello! Zing!), I’ve been reading. Like, not just US Weekly but actual books. I’ve turned to actual books, in part, because I cancelled my subscription to US Weekly after about seven too many glowing cover stories on a certain…
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Reality TV Time: Southern Charm New Orleans
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: having a cold sucks. Especially in the summer. I’ve been sick for about a week. And it really sucks. It’s also been raining in D.C. for basically a month. Sure, there were a couple of days of modest sunshine, but mostly, it’s been rain: warm, humid,…
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How I Plan to Be Super Chill and Eat Waffles in 2018
Here we are a week into the new year and I must say my overwhelming feeling so far in 2018 is that the dumpster fire that was 2017 is far from over. That seems mighty pessimistic, I know. On a personal and professional level (and without getting too personal), last year was a bit bumpy,…