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Of course you do!  Woooo-hooo!

For those of you who don’t know, I do a little thing around here on Sundays called Weekly Winners. (Click for a list of posts.) There’s even a tab at the top of the website that talks all about it.

This isn’t something I’m proud of, but I just don’t have the focus to read books.

Calling all ladies who want to be in Brooks & Dunn’s new video.

A parent of a toddler spends approximately half of his time teaching a child the distinction between food (not for playing) and toys (not for eating, especially when they are the choke-hazard kind). Now, a most diabolical joint venture contributes a new traverse to the gauntlet of parenting.

Here’s the text of an email I sent to the people at Walden’s Puddle, an organization that cares for and rehabilitates wild animals:

To Whom It May Concern,

Liz Garrigan reports that her Managing Editor will traverse the Cumberland River on Thursday with several councilpeople to an attempt to prove the river is clean:

An odd thing happens when your children become teenagers. Where once they were they were the (generally) eager subjects of thousands of pictures and hours of home video, suddenly they turn 13 and you're hard pressed to snap a single decent shot of them to send to the grandparents.