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The Muse has a Sick Sense of Humor

by Heather Kephart February 13, 2010 Humor
as Maxwell Smart

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I was so inspired by yesterday’s guest post by Justin Germino that I plunked my ample behind in a comfy chair and had another go at poetry writing.
Like most, I have a teen journal filled with earnest but wanting attempts and it breaks my heart to read them. A bad poem is like [...]

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This morning at the Tommyknocker compound…

by Heather Kephart November 4, 2009 Family
lolcat

I just made a $959.00 payment to Avon. How? I have no clue. I thought I entered $27.41. But when the order went through I looked at the screen and saw a message thanking me for my $959.00 payment. I spent fifteen minutes on the phone with a bright, cheery fellow from India who eventually [...]

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Jannie Funster did a girl a solid!

by Heather Kephart October 18, 2009 Humor
Jannie Funster rocks!

I received a notice from the post office the other day advising me that my six month PO Box subscription was due to expire 10/31 and to get my butt down there and fork over some cash or surrender my key under penalty of postal workers going postal.
Since I hadn’t visited my PO Box for [...]

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The fart that shook the earth

by Heather Kephart October 16, 2009 Humor
Zombies as portrayed in the movie Night of the...

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Every morning my husband Dennis emerges from the bathroom at 5:30 am and blasts me with a shock of light.
I roll over and take my Levothyroid (I do this as soon as humanly possible since I am then required to wait for an hour before having food and *gasp* coffee) and then, as [...]

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Change

by Heather Kephart October 15, 2009 Humor
perception_of_change

What is the formula for perceiving change?
My children grow a little bit every day, but I don’t notice it. Then one day I  stumble backwards upon realizing that I can no longer yank Lily’s size twelve month bloomers over her diapered butt.
When I diet I am losing a bit of weight each day, but nobody [...]

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Does Motherhood Make Us Bossy?

by Heather Kephart October 12, 2009 Domestic Goddessing
heatherkate

I’ve never been bossy.
I can distinctly remember several times when, as a girl, my Mom took one playmate or another aside and lectured her about bossing me around. Nobody’s Mom ever took me aside and gave me the bossy girl lecture. In retrospect my Mom has mentioned quite a few times that she wishes she’d [...]

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A Hair Affaire

by Heather Kephart October 1, 2009 Humor

Well folks, it seems we’ve turned another page of the tome that is my quest for a decent dye job.
At the salon on Monday:
What I Said: Hi! Please correct the unsightly off-center blob of white bird poop highlights on top of my head. I’d like to go brown. Maybe all brown. What do you [...]

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I stuck a feather in my ear

by Heather Kephart September 19, 2009 Humor
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… and poked out my brain.

Why did I think it would be a good idea to start a writing blog? Perhaps I was having too much fun, joyfully yammering away about writing at Happymaking. So much fun in fact that it was impossible for my inner self-saboteur to allow it to continue! Before I could see it coming, my hand reached up and stuck a feather quill into my right ear and jammed my brain out my left ear.

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Skidmarks and Stupidity

by Heather Kephart September 8, 2009 Family

I woke up late today and stumbled my way to the kitchen on a coffee beeline that looked and felt like a yellow brick road, to discover my husband Dennis fully dressed for work and passed out on the couch. I thought it best to gently rouse him and let him know that he was [...]

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What was that song called?

by Heather Kephart August 17, 2009 Family
Bedside

Joe’s been acting up around dinner time lately. He flat out refuses to dine with us and bounces around the kitchen asking for food items he knows he won’t be getting. “Blueberry lollipop” is his new mantra. Do blueberry lollipops even exist?
Tonight one thing led to another and Joe found himself in a two minute [...]

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