New Orleans

  • Wiggin’

    / June 9, 2011

    Just this second, I’m feeling overwhelmed and out of control.  Oddly, it has nothing to do with the job, which continues to click along at a breakneck pace, taking up virtually all of…

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  • A Tale of Two Cities

    / April 14, 2011

    I once caused a kerfuffle at my old job in Roxboro, North Carolina by getting permission to make a company picnic BYOB.  One of my employees (a manager) pulled me aside and said…

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  • Another Moment

    / April 13, 2011

    In the midst of end-of-term chaos, these beautiful moments keep  ambushing me. Last night the Professor saddled up the pup for his evening walkies, and I decided to corral our increasingly active boys…

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  • A Moment

    / April 10, 2011

    Last week, while the husband and baby were out of town, Jack and I went to a friend’s house for a cookout.  At the cookout, the host had a dozen oysters on the…

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  • Friday Evening WTF

    / March 26, 2011

    We glanced at our bare cupboards last night, and decided to drive to a nearby Pizza Hut to pick up some greasy dinner and bring it home.  Pizza Hut is in a small…

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