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JumpTheSnark Old writer. New media.

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JumpTheSnark · 2M ago

Dance to the music of time

When Alison Young asked me to bring my musical bucket list to her MPR feature, Music With Minnesotans, I was at a loss.  I had none. Instead, I looked back at my life through the lens of classical music, and this was the result. It was a delight.
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JumpTheSnark · 8M ago

Neither shallow nor deep

Image via WikipediaWhile I did reserve The Shallows, the much-touted book about what the internet is doing to our brains, I did not read it. I have, however, experienced it. Sunday, just for the old-fashioned heck of it, I shelled out $6 for a New York Times.  What a pleasure to spread out in be
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JumpTheSnark · 1Y ago

Pick your poison

Image via Wikipedia Fairview/UofM vs Tria/Park Nicollet. Back in July, I had an idiotic fall that smashed my wrist. Treament and surgery were done at Tria, an orthopedic clinic affiliated with Park Nicollet.  The surgeon was good, the day surgery team a marvel of efficiency, and the hand therapists
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JumpTheSnark · 1Y ago

Pyramid of Egregiousness | Name It. Change It.

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JumpTheSnark · 1Y ago

Apropos of nothing

Image via WikipediaWhich must be something like east of the sun. My son came home from camp with a duffel full of mysteries. Like where were his fins? How did his soap return unscathed for the second year running? And what happened to the other 19 socks? This kid went to camp with ten pairs and came
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JumpTheSnark · 1Y ago

Back in the MacSaddle again

Ze cast? She is off. Seventeen days ago, I tripped and fell, hard; skinning lip, nose, knees, and breaking nose and wrist. Fourteen days ago, I had surgery on the wrist, which I gather was really broken. I didn't track the details; not day of fall, day or surgery, or at today's post-op appointment,
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JumpTheSnark · 1Y ago

Noticed - The New Power of Petite Women - NYTimes.com

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeNoticed - The New Power of Petite Women - NYTimes.com Petite - Pronunciation: \pə-ˈtēt\Function: adjective Etymology: French, feminine of petitDate: 1784: having a small trim figure —usually used of a womanPor quoi? We never hear of a petite man. Mai, non. O
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JumpTheSnark · 1Y ago

reBlog from Susan Berkson: Teen Clean Your Room

Image by Adam UXB Smith via FlickrI found this fascinating quote today:In a house with a teenager. In other words, at wit's ends. The stepping-on-legos years were tolerable But this is ridiculous. You're not going in there anymore so the kid is going to have to take care of it. June 11.  That's the
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JumpTheSnark · 2Y ago

Reduce. Reuse. Rethink.

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeTuesday is recycling day in my neck of the woods. Every household puts out a blue bin for recycling and therein lie a million stories. If my neighbors knew what can be gleaned from their recycling bins: Where they shop. What they eat. How they spend. They'd st
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JumpTheSnark · 2Y ago

Now they tell us

Image via WikipediaIn 1998, I wrote: Kids & Pesticides = 700% more leukemiaWe can't print this," said my editor at the Star Tribune, "There are jobs at stake in the lawn care industry."There were lives at stake. How many have been hurt in the last 12 years? How many lost? The article ran in CityPa
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