Song Lyric of the Day: Oh, and once it held laughter / Once it held dreams … If there’s love in a house, it’s a palace for sure / But without love it ain’t nothin’ but a house Tom Waits / “House Where Nobody Lives“ If you’ve read here at all…
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Piecemeal Decorating: The Kids’ Star Wars Bathroom
Star Wars Song Lyric of the Day: Well, I’m not dumb, but I can’t understand / How he can lift me in the air just by raising his hand / Oh, my Yoda / Yo-yo-yo-yo / Yoda yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda “Weird Al” Yankovic / “Yoda“ I love decorating our house. The problem is I can’t…
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I Screen, You Screen, We All Screen for Screen-Free Time
Screen-Free Song Lyric of the Day: Hey / Put the cellphone down for a while / In the night there is something wild / Can you hear it breathing? / And hey / Put the laptop down for a while Arcade Fire / “Deep Blue“ A few months ago I…
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Photoblogging: Troubadour
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Decompression
Song Lyric of the Day: This is the time to give you a reason / This is the time to bare our soul / This is the time to tell you the real truth Unloved / “This Is the Time“ If you read what I posted yesterday, then you can…
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Getting Therapized
Song Lyric of the Day: Oh, hard to hold this fire inside me / All I know, sometimes it’s frightening / Hard to hold this fire inside me / Oh, oh oh, it’s not really like me to lash out / I gotta let it out / I wanna lash out…
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One
DayPost at a TimeSong Lyric of the Day: So, bless my heart and bless my mind / I got so much to do, I ain’t got much time Alabama Shakes / “Hold On“ I’ve made my peace with not being able to update here every day. I work outside the home most days, and…
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A Conversation With Coraline: Abandon Ship
“Were you alive when The Titanic sank?” “No. No one you know was alive when it sank.” “Not even Abuela?” “Oh my God. It sank one hundred six years ago! She would be horrified to hear you think she’s that old.” “Don’t tell her!”
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Hurdy-GERDy
Song Lyric of the Day: When the going gets tough / And the stomach acids flow Primus / “Seas of Cheese“ As long as I can remember, I’ve had what was simply called a sensitive stomach. It wasn’t until about five years ago that I officially got the diagnosis of…
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Pattie and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Last Couple of Weeks
Song Lyric of the Day: Won’t you help me sober up / Growing up it made me numb / And I want to feel something again AJR / “Sober Up“ Life has turned into a country song of late: my hubby got sick; Sebastian got diagnosed with yet another ear infection;…