Category Archives: Ranting

THE SILVER LINING

By Julie | Published: April 23, 2013
When we Minnesotans flung wide our curtains this mid-spring morning, here is the sight that greeted our winter-weary selves: For, perhaps, the umpteen-thousandth time this April Now, if this had been a January morning, or even a March one, I would have had a much easier time soaking in the crisp, shimmering, truly stunning beauty [...]
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LOSING IT

By Julie | Published: April 20, 2013
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OUR DISCLAIMER

By Julie | Published: April 13, 2013
Please be especially nice to us Minnesotans right now. Yes, we might be a little extra crabby lately. Or confused. Disoriented. We might wander off in the middle of a sentence now and then. We might be downright whiny. But that's because here we are...
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A LITTLE CHRISTMAS

By Julie | Published: December 10, 2012
Well, I was going to take this space tonight to tell you how it only took us a week to finish decorating our Christmas tree. (record time.) Or how R-boy hung the star on the tippy top this year. (a first!) Or how it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here. (13″ snowstorm [...]
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LAME

By Julie | Published: April 1, 2012
Today was not the first time I’ve asked for no bun with my hot dog and received something like this in return: I’m sorry but that’s just wrong. Nothing about that is hot dog-ish. You know the cook was cursing under his breath at the ridiculousness of this, and I don’t blame him. I’m sorry, [...]
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LIGHTBULB MOMENTS

By Julie | Published: December 4, 2011
Sometimes the very thing that was so tedious and tangled and infuriating in the moment (like, say, checking every single bulb on the strand to try to find the short that’s making the lights turn off randomly every few minutes - so you can please-oh-please avoid having to run to the store for more lights) when seen [...]
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BRING IT ON

By Julie | Published: November 13, 2011
I’ll be honest. Between all the things I haven’t gotten done around here lately, and all the freelance work I’ve got on my plate, and all the holiday hullabaloo creeping closer and closer, I can feel my heart rate rising. In fact, any hint of Christmas lately has been making me downright crabby. But it [...]
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SWEET HEARTS

By Julie | Published: June 3, 2011
This past school year, I got to spend part of my Friday mornings with some pretty unforgettable third graders. Unforgettable because some of these kids have faced challenges that I may never actually be able to wrap my brain around. Most of them were born without many of the privileges that were somehow just handed [...]
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THIS IS NOT ME

By Julie | Published: January 16, 2011
This used to be me, a few short days ago, but it’s not me anymore. Let me explain. I didn’t start out my weekend planning on different hair. Well, not much different, at least. I won’t bore you with the details of how I colored my own hair on Thursday night, wanting to go back to my slightly darker look from this fall, and how [...]
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YOU CAN ALL IGNORE THIS

By Julie | Published: December 29, 2010
What’s that? Did I hear that Pantone has named Honeysuckle Pink the color of the year for 2011? Yes, yes, I heard. What do I think? Well, first, let me say, they have great taste. Obviously. Second, let’s all just calm down and remember that Pantone doesn’t really have a clue. After all, who out [...]
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