Hand Sanitizer

Title: Hand Sanitizer

Subtitle: World's fastest way to discover if you have an invisible cut on your hand.

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The Mother of All Zucchini

Title: The Mother of All Zucchini

Subtitle: Because there's no time like the present to bake a dozen loaves of zucchini bread.

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When Beauty is Placed Right at Your Feet

Title: When Beauty is Placed Right at Your Feet

Subtitle: Sometimes you simply need to look down.

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How My Kids Became the Most Annoying Customers in Walmart

Title: How My Kids Became the Most Annoying Customers in Walmart

Subtitle: I offer this as a warning.  At all costs, avoid the aisle where cow bells are sold.

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Mission Completed

Title: Mission Completed

Subtitle: Backpacks, you've served us well this year.  You've lugged papers and notebooks and pencils and lunch boxes for 180 days straight, but today your job is done. Let summer begin!

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Happy First Day of Spring!

Title: Happy First Day of Spring!

Subtitle:  Consider this to be a post card sent to you from Pennsylvania.  There's a bird in that one tree.  That's spring-y, right?

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It's Hard to Argue with Vandalism Like This

Title: It's Hard to Argue with Vandalism Like This

Subtitle:  Although our house normally has a "no writing on the walls or furniture" policy, this particular message trumps that rule.

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Household-Level Conspiracy Theory

Title: Household-Level Conspiracy Theory

Subtitle: I have a firm suspicion that my family lets bananas go bad on purpose.  They know I'll crack and make banana bread.  I always crack.

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She Had Reached Her Last Straw

Title: She Had Reached Her Last Straw

Subtitle: Life Rarely Is This Literal

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Door Handles to a Campus Building

Title: Door Handles to a Campus Building

Subtitle: Just enough disparity to rile the OCD tendencies in us all.

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You Know Those Bulky Shopping Carts with the Little Car?

Title: You Know Those Bulky Shopping Carts with the Little Car?

Subtitle:  Well... clean up in aisle 8.

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Seasonal Contrast

Title: Seasonal Contrast

Subtitle: When desire and actuality collide.

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Artistic Liberties

 
Title: Artistic Liberties

Subtitle:  My daughter assures me that this is a dinosaur.

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Three Ways in Which My Husband and I Are Different

Title: Three Ways in Which My Husband and I Are Different

Subtitle: He would buy these giant stuffed animals.  I would not.

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Only YOU Can Prevent Wildfires

Title: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires

Subtitle: This admonishment stresses out my six-year-old daughter.  "Mom, only me?"

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Uncapped Sharpie Marker

Title: Uncapped Sharpie Marker

Subtitle: Although I've never negotiated a hostage situation, I imagine that the process would be similar to finding a child with an uncapped Sharpie. No sudden movements. A slow and steady speaking rate. Phrases like, "Hand it over to me and nobody gets hurt."

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Reader Survey: The Lowdown on Peeps

Title: Reader Survey: The Lowdown on Peeps

Subtitle: What's your opinion of these nearly glow-in-the-dark confections?  Love them? Hate them? See them as an annual guilty pleasure?  Fess up and share: are Peeps Easter delights or edible frights?

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Down and Out

Title: Down and Out

Subtitle:  In an internal war, a mother wonders what is worse: gazing at the growing pile of used tissues, or picking them up herself as the child lies feverishly on the couch. 

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Bread Baked with Daughter for 3rd Grade School Project

Title: Bread Baked with Daughter for 3rd Grade School Project.

Subtitle: Nailed It.

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Nature's Most Exquisite Act

Title: Autumn


Subtitle: Nature's most exquisite act of shedding.

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