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Root, Root, Root for the Home Team

I sat in my living room watching the 2022 Final Four — what would turn out to be Coach K’s last basketball game with Duke.  It was quite the contrast…

My Favorite

Lest you think that all lawyers are boring and stuck up[1], the Georgia Bar is doing something fun on Twitter – they are having a March Madness-type bracket of 64…

‘Til Death Do Us Part

When my anniversary comes this March, I will have been married 23 years.  This means that my marriage is old enough to drink, though not old enough to get a…

TV Dinners

Back in the day before microwaves and an entire aisle in the grocery store wasn’t dedicated to frozen meals of increasing gourmet pretensions, there was the TV Dinner.  TV Dinners[1]…

(th)Inking about the past

In the past, I had two sweet little babies. As it turns out, I don’t have children anymore. I mean, I have offspring, but not children.  My youngest turned 18…

Knowing What to Ask

At the risk of sounding more get-off-my-lawn-y than usual, I want to lament the demise of research using books and paper. Don’t get me wrong – I appreciate the heck…

New Year’s Resolution

In case you hadn’t noticed, it is now 2022.  I saw on Twitter this morning that the release of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was closer to D-Day than it is to…

Sparkle in the Mud

Generally speaking, I’m not what you’d call fancy.  If you have the misfortune of seeing me on the weekend you might think to yourself, “I mean, is she going out…

Hello Dark

Hello dark, you’re not my friend. I can never remember which is daylight savings time – the fall back one or the spring forward one.  Honestly, I don’t care which…

Targeted Marketing

As a fifty-one year old woman, I don’t have a lot of use for penile enlargement supplements.  As a person who posts pictures of her dog more often than her…

Topics to Talk About

My son turned twenty not too long ago, and my daughter is on the verge of eighteen.  I talk about this an annoying amount because it means that in a…

Full-Grown Adult

My son is about to turn 20 and I have some feelings about that.  When other people turn 20, I think, well yeah, he’s an adult, of course he’s 20. …