Archive for January, 2012

 
  • Bastard Out of Carolina

    January 31, 2012

    I knew it might happen. Today at school our youngest daughter, Cozette (8), was teased about not having a grandfather. Somehow, she and two friends got onto the subject and
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  • The Stages of Twitter

    January 29, 2012

    If you’ve been paying any attention, you notice patterns of stages that we all go through when it comes to Twitter. At first we don’t get it. We don’t understand
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  • Butterfly

    January 26, 2012

    After a tough day at work – wait, I need to stop right there. I run the marketing arm of a small, but growing business. It’s not hard. I used
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  • The Hourglass

    January 20, 2012

    As parents, we see our kids all the time – but don’t really see them at all. It’s the woods for the trees phenomenon. Or, if you like, being too
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  • The Fine Line Between Politics and Comedy

    January 19, 2012

    It’s time to light a rescue fire in the letters SOS. Also, there’s this: Maybe this is why I can’t take Republican politicians seriously this election. *** Jim Mitchem

  • The Simple Solution to SOPA

    January 18, 2012

    I wrote this post on Wednesday, and by Friday SOPA was dead. Congratulations to everyone who fussed. On Friday I actually received an email from my congressman Larry Kissell after
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  • Art and War and SOPA

    Everyone’s favorite acronym, SOPA, takes center stage this week as potentially hundreds of websites ‘go black’  to protest controversial legislation that could mean censorship of the Internet. At the heart
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  • Horny

    January 16, 2012

    There’s a horn growing out of my head. It started about a month ago with what felt like a dry patch of skin at my hairline above my right temple.
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  • Death to Routines

    January 14, 2012

    I woke up this morning like I do most Saturdays, with a bed full of girls. We talked and laughed and before getting up for the day, I said something
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  • Sex

    January 10, 2012

    Until I was eighteen, sex meant using my imagination and a JC Penny catalog. But then things changed. And for the next six years I enjoyed the company, and the
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