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Originally published at Chronicole. You can comment here or there.

Originally published at Chronicole. You can comment here or there.

Originally published at Chronicole. You can comment here or there.

Okay, no, iBAM has nothing to do with Emeril, but when I saw the acronym used it was my first thought. DISCLAIMER: I'm a Mac fan and I sometimes Mac apostle.

iBoughtAMac, a safe haven for new Mac users, looks like it will be an interesting new blog to watch. I often find the best way to learn more about something is to see it through the eyes of someone who is just getting the first time. I've added this site to my reader.

iBoughtAMac is holding a contest right now to win an iPod shuffle. It should be interesting. Spread the love!

Around the treehouse lately we've been listening to the Tarzan soundtrack. We checked the movie out from the library last weekend and watched it. Avery liked it, but she keeps talking about Charlie and the monkeys. I'm not sure where Charlie comes into things, but everytime she looks at the Tarzan CD she calls him Charlie.

The other day in the car she asked Saraby if she liked handburgers. Saraby said yeah, and then Avery put her finger in her nose and said, here mama, hand-booger. Nice.

But all in all, 2 1/2 is a lot of fun.

I love this site.

Love it.

What are five books that changed your life? 
Inspired by Ms. Genevieve.

1. To Kill A Mockingbird - I'm reading Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee right now.
2. Atlas Shrugged
3. The Stand
4. The Giving Tree - I always felt like I was the only person who thought that the kid was a horrible, rotten person. Always take, take, take. The tree just loves you, why don't you give something back, huh!!
5.

Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee

1994 was not a stellar year for me. It was my first semester in journalism school, I had to take a writing class (ick!), many things sucked. But it was the year I had the chance to meet Molly Ivins.

She was being honored at a journalism banquet and I was one of the escorts in charge of getting the honorees to the event. I only spent 30 minutes with her before the banquet but they were very a funny 30 minutes. If you couldn't get fired up about something after hearing her talk about it, then chances were you weren't ever going shake off your apathy.

When I worked in Texas, I always hoped she would come to the Senate floor and I would get a chance to meet her again but she never did.

*Coincidently, the banquet was also where Susan Meiselas gave me the best advice I never took. She told me to drop out, travel and take pictures. Not to worry about the whole education part of it. In hindsight, she was totally right.

Sometimes, more often than not, all you need in your life to make it brighter is Strong Bad . . .and maybe a little Lil' Brudder.

Ah, Lil' Brudder.

This one's funny too.

It's a snow day. I have the oldest complaining about school being cancelled—she has a presentation she was supposed to give today and was ready to get it over. The youngest is loving life since our neighbor gave us her little boy's snowsuit. She's dying to go back outside. Saraby's school was cancelled and she's been waiting for this snow for months.

And then there is me. My work is open. I'm only working from home because my bus jack-knifed going up a little hill and then the replacement bus didn't realize the first bus was blocking the entire street. Everyone was hanging out at the little coffee shop on the corner, laughing at people driving in this mess.

I could take the Tram, but I still have to figure how to get there. Somehow I don't think my Dansko's are going to cut it in the mounds of snow we have right now. Luckily, I can work from home with ease . . .so much ease I wish they would let me do it all the time.