30 Before 30: Join a CSA Just prepaid for 26 weeks of vegetables—and completed my first item on the list!

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Another entry in this weekend’s “Samantha must have been replaced with a clone or a robot or a robot clone” chronicles: I’m willingly at a hockey game.

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I made pancakes this morning. I’m sure my husband is wondering where the real me is and whether to complain.

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It’s been so long since Stephen and I have been able to enjoy a weekend together that I sort of feel like we’re on a vacation. Or a “staycation,” if you will. We’ve managed to get a ton of things done today plus enjoy some roller derby. The only thing that didn’t go so smoothly [...]

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30 Before 30: Read one book/fortnight (5/31) I read Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions on the plane to Columbus, Ohio, and in the airport before flying back. It could have been my frazzled and/or exhausted mind, but the book seemed to me not unlike The Thank You Economy—so much [...]

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It’s such a funny thing. Threats–like hurricanes and rectal exams–are only scary until they arrive. Once they’re over, they’re just the basis for funny stories. But, you do nearly always survive them. And, if you didn’t survive? It wasn’t because of a lack of fear. Like I say, the universe doesn’t particularly care whether you’re [...]

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