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Like one of my favorite bloggers, I just don’t feel up to posting on my usual topic(s) today when thousands upon thousands of people in Haiti are suffering.

Here is a list of six ways that you can help.

I have spent so many hours of the past several weeks worrying, analyzing, stressing, nit-picking, interpreting and regretting that, I just realized, I have made it all worse than it had to be.

Today, in one of those end-of-year articles on resolutions–specifically the author’s resolution to stress less–I read this line (or something pretty similar):

Will it matter a [...]

So, as any parent can relate, it’s Friday night and it is late. I am not about to write anything.

But, heh, I’ve posted. AND IT COUNTS.

So this is one of those. See you tomorrow.

(Yeah, I know this doesn’t totally count as a post on the theme, but I am still putting sumpthin up)

Oy, today I turned 35 (gasp).

This is my first birthday that I’ve felt old. OK, well, old-ER.

I know I’m not really that old, but…I just always thought 35 was, well,  when-you-have-it-all-figured-out.

And I am so far from that.

Yet I have the brown skin spots and the forehead wrinkles.

Maybe I just need to stay out of the [...]

So you’ve noticed I haven’t been doing much here lately. Um, yeah, make that for a while.

We’ve been busy with moving.

Although we’ve moved just across town–not even a five minute drive–this has been one of the most stressful moves we’ve ever made.

Maybe it’s that now it is all about Samantha. Maybe it’s that we really [...]

The regularly scheduled NaBloPoMo theme of Napa Valley wineries has been interrupted by the unpleasantness associated with a root canal.

We will return to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow.

Recently, Tom’s work had a contest based on Riedel glassware sales. The incentive was something like a “Riedel dollar” for every x amount of glassware sold.

Tom placed third (yay Tom!) with $1400 worth of Riedel credits. Wholesale value.

We had a blast deciding what to get (Riedel offers specific glasses for wines I’ve never even heard [...]

Blog building is interesting work.

From my job experience(s), I understand the basics behind copywriting/editing, OMS/CMS and even a wee bit of html.

But when it’s personal like this, you start to think all these crazy things like what do I really like? who really am I? what am I really About?

That is, things I haven’t thought [...]