
I didn’t get involved in blogging until 2009, but I have been trolling the Internet (before that was a bad thing) since 1994. I opened an AOL account under a fake name that was the combination of Faile, a character from the Wheel of Times series, and BG, which stood for belly goddess. Sidenote: Belly [...]
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The problem with graduating from medical school is that when my stomach hurts and I don’t vomit or poop my brains out, I think: I have abdominal fullness. When I think “abdominal fullness,” I think cancer. I start to list off the rest of my recent “symptoms,” which all lead to cancer even though I [...]
Tagged as: Change, Friends, I am too sick to be awesome, Internet, Medical School, New Year's resolutions are suspect, Poop, Resentments, Stupid, Writing
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When I began blogging, I read one blog, Dooce, and I had only found her two months prior. I had no idea there was a community and a ranking system and support and cliques and friends and frenemies and conferences. Blogging is found at the intersection of personal and business, ideas and reality, fans and [...]
Tagged as: Blogging, Business, Friends, I Hope I Still Have Friends After This Post, IRL, Reading, Rules, Seems Like A Bad Idea To Post This
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One afternoon, I see a woman at the my son’s fun run who I haven’t seen in years. We were quite close back in the day, but since a thingthatIwontgointo, we’ve only spoken once or twice on Facebook. One of those Facebook times cleared the air and I still care about her, but I am [...]
Tagged as: Facebook, Feelings, Friends, Frienemy, I Hope I Still Have Friends After This Post, I thought social media was supposed to save me from this social awkwardness, Karma, Karma Sucks, Social Media, Socially Awkward, tweet, Twitter
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Do you ever wonder why so many people are going to died in Armageddon? Besides the whole Christian view about those of us who forgot to throw stones at gay people are doomed, I’m pretty sure pop culture is going to kill us. Um, if you think a workout will prepare you for going days [...]
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These are (some of) our cats. We’d like to thank them for making our transition to parenthood so smooth. Now, the pre-kid, cat owners can rejoice over their ready-to-go parenting skills should the days of children ever arrive in their cat world. In fact, they can start now by telling their parent-friends to try scratching [...]
Tagged as: Animals, cat owners, Cats, cats and kids, Children, Friends, parent friends, Parenting Gurus Should Be Taking Notes, parenting skills, Potty Training
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J asks: What are you supposed to do/say when another child is the grabby kid, taking a toy out of your better trained (or behaved?) child’s hand? What do you say to your kid about that? What – if anything – do you say to the grabby kid? And is what you say different if [...]
Tagged as: Anger, Children, Everyone should parent like me, Friends, Helicopter parents, Parenting Gurus Should Be Taking Notes, Play areas should be segregated by parenting styles, Playgrounds scare me, Sharing, Sometimes I Am A Jerk, The Mall, You Are Probably A Better Parent Than Me
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