Floating Leaf : People in the Sun

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The Zen Of Motherhood

What? - *Camera Critters* *The Weekend in Black and White*
moosh in indy.

addie in NYC days one and two - Remember how I said you wouldn’t like the subway? I was wrong. As long as no part of you is touching any part of a stranger you LOVE the subway. You alread...
Who Hijacked Our Country

North Carolina is the new Mississippi - What the fuck is happening to North Carolina? This has been one of the most progressive of the southern states. It’s the home of Duke University — plus a...
A Day In The Life

Creed Bratton's song and a wrap-up of "The Office" finale - If there was one network sitcom that defined the past decade or so, for me it was "The Office". I don't know that I ever missed an episode of the uncomfort...
Momo Fali's

Siri-ously Impolite - I don’t text and drive, not because it’s illegal, but because it’s really dumb. I occasionally read texts at stoplights, but that’s only because I am frequ...
The Absent Minded Housewife

You can call me Sylvia Browne because all my predictions about today came true. - God bless elementary school teachers because the dear lord knows that I could never ever be one. A school bus full of second graders for a day long field ...
A Blogger and a Father

The Solitary Confinement of Depression. #ForMarc - [image: Suicide Prevention Lifeline]In 2006, I was fired from my job. I remember the joyful drive home--finally I was free from this job I had hated for 4 ...
Luke, I Am Your Father

Nailed it. - When I arrived home tonight, after a particularly long day, Lukas came running from the kitchen and jumped into my arms, giving me a huge hug and a kiss. ...
ileenieweenie

So this just happened… -
Mommy Melee

How many women can make Angelina Jolie’s medical choice? - On opening up to our world Today, Angelina Jolie published an op-ed with the New York Times and let the public know that she underwent a double mastectomy ...
MetaAnomie

Chicken Pot Pie - The wifey’s dad came up to see us a few weekends back and we all teamed up to make homemade chicken pot pies. I searched around the internet and compiled t...
Magneto Bold Too!

miscellany - I had the perfect, HILARIOUS post title to describe Mothers Day. Alas it involved words and themes that I cannot speak of, so completely wasted. Fuck it. I...
on the m104

toonsday - Gonna miss ya! -
All Things Jennifer

Anxious…overwhelmed, blessed. - I’m much more anxious about this huge life changing move to our forever home tomorrow, than I think I have been about anything since meeting HWMMS. Weber ...
Life Goes On, I think

In My Defense, Conjugal Visits Never Came Up - "We're going over to Cara's house tonight," Leslie said earlier Saturday. "You should come!" "Can't. I have a date." "Not the guy who texted you at 10:30PM...
The Busy Dad Blog

Equations - I've been telling people "wow, I haven't blogged in a month!" for three months now. How quickly time flies between posts that you don't write. And this i...
PostSecret

Mother's Day Secrets - PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. [image: PostSecret C...
all that comes with it

Parties and Children: Things To Consider - It’s a well known fact that children love parties. With their natural abundance of energy, children relish the opportunity to play and meet new people. Of ...
In a Western Place

Life List: Killing Joke - I credit my good friend Chris for converting me into a fan of Killing Joke way back when we were in high school. He lives in Sacramento now, and made the...
Zen Mom

Fin - *It was Miss Zen. In the Library. With the Candlestick. * Zee Blog, She iz dead. Well, she's taking a really long dirt nap, anyway. I thought about tryi...
Twipply Skwood

Chores R' Us...Or Chores R' Her at Least. I'm Not Really Such a Great Housekeeper as it Turns Out. - I've tried different programs for becoming a better housekeeper. I've tried the Fly Lady, I've tried Motivated Moms, and I've tried lists from Pinterest an...
if you want kin, you must plant kin ...

Yes, we have no Aruns today. - I’ve been home a full week now. Feels both like five seconds and five months. I’ve been doing a significant amount of sleeping, and mixing that up with p...
Nanny Goats in Panties

5 Mother’s Day Gift Ideas That Cost You Virtually Nothing - When are you going to get it through your thick skull that spending a lot of money on your mom for Mother’s Day is completely missing the point? There is...
Child's Play x2

Third Time’s a Charm - Girly, You are 22 months old and I want you to know that in spite of all that has happened in my life during that time, I thank God that you are here to bl...
LiteralDan

A conversation between E- and J-: Pleading the Fifth at Two - The following is a conversation initiated out of the blue by my 2-year-old son E- (who's lately been known to loudly demand to know "why you put me in trou...
The Great Walls of Baltimore

Don't Swallow Your Gum! Parenting Myths and Untruths - When I was a pretty young kid, I remember that my parents used to make me wait to play after a meal. For thirty minutes. Of course, what little kid wants...
The Daily Smoke

On Socks, Hats, and Wellies - It is still raining in Madrid. I am almost of a mind to complain, but then I remember I never complained that much about rain in London so it doesn't seem...
Not in My Book

New Caffeinated Comics - Doctor Who is back! we get giddy and discuss all thing British Then Dave gets angry and it all goes wrong somehow. Plus Bill Monroe is back in a non emerge...
An Apostate's Chapel

Easter Irony - I just came across this cartoon on the Internet: Let me explain why I think this cartoon is ironic. Most of the fundogelicals I know are conservative in bo...
Baltimore Diary

Mug Protocols - Captain Stemkowski: Don't drink my coffee from my cup, Jilette! —No Mercy (1986) ----------------------------------------------- I just got back from a whirl...
Kikit Avenue

Seven Last Words - If Jesus had been our travel buddy, the following passages would have been His text messages, tweets or Facebook updates. Or perhaps, He doesn't need to tr...
Wonderland or Not

This Used To Be My Playground - Time and oceans, rivers, work, and the dogged determination to make more of myself this week than last, has kept me away. Vanished I was, a good word and ...
Out-Numbered

Green Acres Is The Place To Be... - Here I sit on the LIRR, knees pressed against the back of the seat in front of me. Usually women sit like this or teenage girls. Business men sit upright, ...
I Don't Wanna Hear It!

Habemus Papam - Very few things can bring the world together. A large portion of world is joined as they watch athletes compete in the Olympics or World Cup. Another large...
One Pissed Off Veteran

Taking Some Time Off - You know that old expression, "the hurrieder I go the behinder I get". Well, that's me. Now that it's spring-ish in Western Washington, She-Who-Must-Be-Obe...
Shelli's Sentiments

BOOM! - I lost 3 pounds this week. I mean, I LOST 3 POUNDS THIS WEEK! That’s how excited I was. Woo hoo. However, I don’t know what the hell was different. I didn’...
The Cheek of God

Second - I finally found him, sitting the fifth row of the bleachers, digging through his duffel bag for a Clementine to munch. Orange fuel, peel and all, for the b...
CHRONICALLY SICK, BUT STILL THINKING I THINK

A Bit of News/Update - It has been so long since I've updated (over a year and half, yikes!). I am so sorry about that. I hope you are all doing great! Things are great on my end...
Aren't We Being Funny!!!

What's Hoppening - Kangaroos live as one big hoppy family!
Annoyingly Boring?

Photo A Day for February - I did it in November, and it was good to be shooting again, even if it was very challenging to work it all into the schedule, so I am doing it again for th...
Land of Bean

What I'm Reading 2013 - Another year down, another shelf added to my personal library. I read some really amazing books last year. Books that made me laugh. Books that made me wee...
Color Me Katie

10 things that make me happy - [image: Untitled] Diving into my giant blob bed, [image: Untitled] heights, [image: Yes, his name is Rob.] People that tattoo their name on their arm... just...
Praying to Darwin

Innies vs. Outies (Not a Belly Button Story) - The city in which I live has a fair number of traffic circles. They’ve fallen out of favor in several parts of the world. Too tough to navigate. (I did a b...
Florida Girl in Sydney

Too Much Alcohol or Norovirus? - Our five day, pre-cruise vacation in Ft. Lauderdale, was just grand. There were cousins o'plenty and friends from near and far; and a good time had by all...
All the BS

Russian Road-Rage - These Russian road-rage videos keep on coming. While Communism was supposedly all about solidarity, the new Russian society, at least judging by road-court...
Take it one gigantic, earth-shattering crisis at a time.

OMG you guys!! - I did it. I finally figured out what I want to be when I grow up. Not only have I figured it out, but I've started taking steps towards achieving it. ...
Ask And Ye Shall Receive

Blue Days, Black Nights. - ...Hello? I miss you guys.
Sunset Over Slawit

Post Script - Top Tens Live Forever! - Thanks to everybody who left a comment about the final sunset over Sunset Over Slawit. As mentioned in that last post, I wanted to find some way of keep...
My Travels, Travails, and Thoughts

The concept of perfection is imperfect. - #history The concept of perfection is imperfect. Fascinating tale from the Victorian age. Celebrity culture it seems is not a phenomenon of the modern w...
Bee's Musings

Tough love, the cure for what ails the dependent youth. - Yesterday I went to see my little brother’s new apartment. Well, “little” is really pushing the laws of adjectives since he’s actually 29 but he hasn’t...
the foaming

Stuff that makes me happy. - Carol has been posting photos of things that make her happy. I've decided to do the same. If you are looking for the haiku winner, see the post below. ...
flutter

Goodnight, moon. - Thank you for the years of love and support and friendship in this space. It has been a growing place for me. Just like these burgundy butterflies on the c...
Puntabulous

Remember This Video? That’s Ellie Kemper - From Bridesmaids and The Office.
Lisa Goldman

On the future of this blog - Dear All - It’s come to my attention that some people have this blog on their RSS feeds or Google readers, but do not follow me via other social media. I j...
Xbox4NappyRash

A to do list - Some things just look wrong, and that wee redirecting post sitting up here was one of them. We've been to New Zealand and returned and all was fantastic an...
Free Republik

Callista and the Free Republic - Newt Gingrich said that the next First Lady, his current wife Callista, "describes herself as being a cross between Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush with just a...
Not Afraid to Use It

Proper Apologies - I get that texting has become the norm for communicating with friends. Hey let's grab drinks. On my way. Running late. It's quick, efficient, and lets peop...
Memoirs of an oversized Canadian

Long Time no BB - I'm not really sure why I haven't killed this thing, why I leave it up for some person from work to find it and figure out how much of a sick freak I am. R...
Sarah's Moments...

Instant Reactions to A Bunch of BS (And A Bunch of Good to Balance That Out): - It's been awhile, and dad has been impatient for a new post, so, herrrrrre we go... *:( Stupid words:* Go away. I don’t want to hear delish, spork, yummy, ...
Real Live Lesbian

They didn't even have gravy... - You may have missed that I spent a few weeks in Turkey. Right before the PKK events of late and the earthquake in the town of Van. I stayed in that town. ...
Doodaddy

Fairy Doors Redux: Evil Undead Edition - I have a good friend who’s locally famous (internationally, if you count the blog) for his fairy doors. And I have a five-year old obsessed with the macabr...
Insane Baltimore

Sane Baltimore - Last year my wife had to go to Delaware for work. I joined, because going to Delaware sounded exotic. Anyway, Delaware is as boring as its 55 MPH speed lim...
DC Urban Dad

It's almost the end of the week, so let's rock out..... - Howdy folks and happy Monday happy Thursday and almost end of the week to you. We are kicking the week off ending the week with some kick butt music for your...
Down to Earth Mama

Wordless Wed: Between Heaven and the Depths -
Its my Right to be Left of the Center

Buh Bye Blogger! Moving to WordPress. - I am no longer posting to this damn Blogger blog. My new site can be foundhere, and the name is changed to *Leftwing Nutjob*..which is what it should be an...
The Daily Dorkmonger

Apocalypse No - May 21 has come and gone, and we're still here. Apparently Harold Camping misinterpreted something in the Bible. Imagine that -- somebody misinterpreted th...
manic mariah

I'm Alive... - Sort of.I have taken in two teenagers. Siblings, 17 and 15. My son likes the 17y/o and the 15 y/o likes my daughter.I sleep with my eyes open.Their parents...
Amanda in Real Life

Dead or Alive - Yesterday my boyfriend had food poisoning and spent all day throwing up. Here's a string of texts we sent each other last night. I'm nothing if not a suppo...
A Free Man

So if Santa Claus ain’t Daddy then I’m gonna tell on them. - Hope all your Christmases were as merry as ours. (21st Century Xmas by Skype) (Santa knows what boys want.) (Christmas rasslin’) (Redux.) Happy Holidays fr...
A Life Less Ordinary

And So I’ll Go… - I have been a bad blogging hostess of late. Truth is, there just hasn’t been much I feel like talking about here. It took me a while, but I’ve made my peac...
Cruel Virgin

Get This Party Started--Again - What the hell. Here is the link to my new blog. I only have one post so far. Those of you who gave me your email addresses, I will still invite you. But...
U N L O A D E D

Debauchery and Illness - Well true believers, your intrepid blogger has had one hell of a weekend thus far. The pinnacle was on Saturday night where a friend and I hit some bars i...