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Yearly Archives: 2009

Holiday Shopping Chronicle Books Discount

Chronicle Books Friends & Family Holiday Sale! 35% off + Free Shipping with promo code FRIENDS. (Ends 12.9.09)

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Feinberg Silent Auction Results

The Kelly Feinberg Fund Silent Auction raised a little over $5,700. I am so excited that there were bids on the Paper Boat Photography portrait session! I’m looking forward to photographing the winners! If you missed the auction and would like to help out, you can make a contribution. Checks made out to “Kelly Feinberg”...

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Emails from M’Lynn-Ouiser {M’Weeza for short}

My mom is a cross between the Sally Field and Shirley MacClaine characters in Steel Magnolias. Because she makes me laugh, I’ve reprinted her most recent email to me {with her permission, of course}. —– Original Message —– From: Mom Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009 22:32 Subject: Help with shutterfly To: Teaworthy If you are...

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All Is Calm?

Well, not yet. But I’m trying really hard to get there. Posts like this one from habit help… and this one from Soule Mama… and sparkly starfish ornaments here. It’s a marathon. Don’t forget to stop for water, twinkle lights and peppermint sticks in your gin and tonic.

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Season’s Readings

This post is to bookmark a story for me to return to: NPR’s Seasons Readings: Top Picks From Indie Booksellers. I heard the tail end of the story in the shower this morning and just when they were talking about Joan Didion’s writing process, I had to dash so I hope to come back to...

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On Things Learned Today

*These Martha Stewart glitter kits are not as innocuous as they look in the hands of a 4.5 year old.  She would bathe in it if I let her. *Holiday stress is much better if you can end the day by the fireplace. *I keep returning to images online and in magazines of white birch...

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Bid on a Paper Boat Photography Shoot!

I am honored to be part of the Feinberg Fund Silent Auction which will be held this Thursday {December 3rd} in the University of Kentucky Student Center Small Ballroom from 6:00-9:00 pm. I’ve donated a portrait session and whoever wins the bid will get lots of bang for their buck. I promise!  Some of the...

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Fingerprints

The War of Art is a lovely little book about the struggle to give yourself permission to create.  There are entire shelves in the bookstore devoted to this subject. Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way suggests that we all have creativity monsters. Amen, sister.  It’s amazing that we have to have books devoted to something as simple as the literary equivalent of...

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Honest Tea

I hope everyone had a nice holiday and that you are finding time for yourself as things get increasingly more scheduled.  I’ve been thinking a lot about Kath’s beautifully written response in her interview about what she looks for in blogs. This phrase keeps going through my mind: “I love it when the questions are...

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Happy Thanksgiving

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