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  • I’m not really surprised

    I mean, just the fact that I hang out on a blog called skepchick makes me a nerd, right?

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  • I'm not really surprised

    I mean, just the fact that I hang out on a blog called skepchick makes me a nerd, right?

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  • What to read next?

    Hi All. Please excuse my absence this month. My third book (Ethnic Knitting Discovery, having nothing to do with skepchickism) has just been released and I’m doing a blog book tour, plus catching up on some straggler freelance work that just won’t seem to come to an end. I’ve got two more books that I’d like to read this year…

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  • The Things We Did and Didn’t Do

    Much thanks to everyone who came out to my birthday drunkathon Saturday night, particularly those of you who made sure I didn’t pass out in a Cambridge gutter. We completely took over the restaurant’s back room (and then some). There were scary Chinese shrimp chips, weird snow globes, many martinis, and of course a magician entertaining the crowd. I lost…

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  • The Things We Did and Didn't Do

    Much thanks to everyone who came out to my birthday drunkathon Saturday night, particularly those of you who made sure I didn’t pass out in a Cambridge gutter. We completely took over the restaurant’s back room (and then some). There were scary Chinese shrimp chips, weird snow globes, many martinis, and of course a magician entertaining the crowd. I lost…

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  • My Weekend

    (Cross-posted at the new SGU Blog!) A few days ago I hitched a ride out of town, northward to Vermont. It’s the right time of year to do a thing like that, with the tree-filled landscape changing from green to yellow, orange, and red. But unlike the thousands of elderly leaf-peepers who descend upon New England to book all the…

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  • The Glamour of Travel

    I wish the world was flat like in the old days, And I could travel just by folding the map. No more airplanes or speed trains or freeways — There’d be no distance that could hold us back.

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  • A quick note of thanks…

    Hi all, I’m currently in Minneapolis at a public radio conference, where it was announced that Al, Glynn and I won the Talent Quest. It’s been a whirlwind of fun…yesterday we were on stage at the BEAUTIFUL headquarters of Minnesota Public Radio, before about a hundred producers, chatting with Bill Radke of Weekend America about our upcoming show pilots. Then…

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