mikkie on February 28th, 2009

It’s funny how you can read someone’s blog and feel like you know them, even though you may not have exchanged more than a handful of words with them in their comments or in an e-mail. Lisa at Clusterfook was one of those people. Hers was the second blog I ever read, back when she [...]

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mikkie on February 20th, 2009

Sometimes I wonder if my existence has made a difference to anyone else. Although I know intellectually that my life has made some impact on the lives of my friends, at least on a small scale, I wonder just how memorable I am. I wonder if my being here matters to anyone.
Since I don’t have children, [...]

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mikkie on February 18th, 2009

Most of the time, I feel very small and insignificant – a feeling left over from when I was a small child and so shy that I would tiptoe across the linoleum floor in kindergarten, so my Mary Janes wouldn’t make any noise as I walked. I wanted to be invisible, even back then.
When I [...]

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mikkie on February 10th, 2009

I have been married and divorced three times in my life. That’s a fact, and I can’t change it. I’ve been divorced now for 11 years, and have pretty much settled into the idea that I’ll likely be on my own for the foreseeable future. Oh, I’ve had relationships — although most were extremely short. [...]

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mikkie on February 3rd, 2009

A new trend in advertising gimmicks has really started to bother me lately – the practice of broadcasting “micro-ads” about one second in length, typically inserted just before a program returns from a commercial break. Sometimes they’re not even consciously recognizable, just a blip on the screen when watching in real time. It’s only when [...]

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