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  • Red Headed Super Hero

    I love that when I sent this picture to Mel and Willie they both commented on the sweaters and the bangs and the glasses. William Riggle, my first boyfriend in the 8th grade, who I will forever relate to granny pantie…

  • Flat Faced Four Eyed Freak

    "Your face is so flat," she'd whisper under her breath, when the teacher wasn't looking. The leader of a gang of pretty, privileged girls with perfectly coifed hair, plastered on Guess jeans, and the latest Swatch watc…

  • The Pink Ladies

    Featured Grownups asked us to write about who we admire. This is my response. The Pink Ladies Pledge is To act coolTo look coolAnd to be coolTil death do us partThink Pink! In every person's life there are a group of p…

  • Adventures in Self Dressing

    From the time, I learned to tie my shoes, my mom let me dress myself. Striped, rainbow sun dresses fell gracefully over Halloween pumpkin tights, topped off with red sparkle Dorothy shoes and a rain coat, just in case. …

  • Walking the Plank

    I'm doing my first interview today for the Free Press. I'm so nervous. I hope she doesn't see right through my newness. ACK An idea I had swishing around, I thought perfect for this challenge from the Featured Grownup…

  • Flashback

    My daughter doesn't think Marty McFly is cute and hates the jean jacket. It doesn't help matters that she finds absolutely no humor in Valley Girl talk, of which my fellow 31 year old friend and I spent most of the afte…

  • Stand By Me Flashback

    In the summer of 1986, I spent 90% of the months of June and July, on the worn carpet of our duplex on Kynette Street, with my finger attached to the record button of our first VCR. MTV played the commercial often, one …

  • Science Projects from Hell In second grade, someone in the elementary chain of command decided I might be gifted. Starting in the 5th grade, being "gifted" involved yearly science fair projects. This would have been fi…

  • Thanks to JennyG for this great idea, I'm lacking in inspiration today. Working on the contest still, you can vote until Monday! Vote here Something about bad boys... Always got to me Started with Kiefer Sutherland, my…

  • Reposting for some of my old friends who now read the blog. Tiff's Cure for a Saturday Pity Party Copy transvestite_rabbit by digging into children's Halloween candy. Instead of sneaking one piece, take the entire ba…

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