fortunate discoveries by accident Vox 2009-01-05T07:06:30Z karen http://serendipity.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00b8ea0686dddece/2008/ (AKA: without a plan, winging it, or just plain stumbling around) Our tree is up tag:vox.com,2008-12-08:asset-6a00b8ea0686dddece01098153a989000d 2008-12-08T06:30:42Z 2009-01-05T07:06:30Z karen http://serendipity.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

A serpent in a fir tree

Twelve crocheted snowflakes Eleven glass icicles Ten wire snowballs Nine hand-blown ornaments Eight made by children Seven little angels Six disney characters FIVE GILDED LEAVES! Four strings of lights Three gold horns Two Tiny doves And

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]]> Thoughts on a train tag:vox.com,2008-11-24:asset-6a00b8ea0686dddece0109814f9da5000d 2008-11-24T16:54:02Z 2008-11-29T19:35:43Z karen http://serendipity.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom With my new hours the family is on a different morning schedule. Before, I was driving the kids to school in the morning, which I love to do but which would result in a two-hour commute. Now we all jump in the car together, they drop me at the tr...

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]]> assimilated tag:vox.com,2008-11-23:asset-6a00b8ea0686dddece0109810f4fdc000c 2008-11-23T06:30:37Z 2008-11-24T17:19:04Z karen http://serendipity.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I'm eotimg this from my new iPhone. As you can aee I'm aril getting used to the keypad. I'm Alsop using blogit which I thimk means my nerd trannsformation is zxomplete. Resistance is futile

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]]> Before tag:vox.com,2008-11-21:asset-6a00b8ea0686dddece0109814e7f08000d 2008-11-21T21:50:20Z 2008-11-23T15:28:28Z karen http://serendipity.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

I thought about saying "which one is the turkey?" but that would be mean

I love the perspective here. It looks like the turkey is bigger than Angelo (it's not).

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]]> Bay Bridge to Nowhere tag:vox.com,2008-11-17:asset-6a00b8ea0686dddece0109810cb4f0000c 2008-11-17T06:26:08Z 2008-11-21T18:15:13Z karen http://serendipity.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

sf fog

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]]> Cassandre tells a joke tag:vox.com,2008-10-31:asset-6a00b8ea0686dddece010980b1f316000b 2008-10-31T02:35:42Z 2008-10-31T18:44:43Z karen http://serendipity.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom George Washington, George Bush and Abraham Lincoln are on top of the Empire State Building. George Washington says "I'm going to do a good deed to the world" and throws a thousand dollars off the building. George Bush says "Ha! I'm going to do ev...

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]]> Fun with numbers tag:vox.com,2008-10-16:asset-6a00b8ea0686dddece0100a8039b9f000e 2008-10-16T03:51:47Z 2008-10-23T01:49:05Z karen http://serendipity.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Loud does not equal listened to updated for mark

Xavier makes me listen to Fox all the time, saying "we have to know what they are thinking." He just got back from Montana where, assuming he was a "forinor" people told him all kinds of things about Obama being Muslim, Acorn causing the economi...

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]]> just can't get enough tag:vox.com,2008-09-30:asset-6a00b8ea0686dddece0100a7ff805f000e 2008-09-30T21:07:38Z 2008-12-26T01:22:10Z karen http://serendipity.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Cover of this week's New Yorker

Couric: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that? Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the ...

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]]> Opting in tag:vox.com,2008-09-20:asset-6a00b8ea0686dddece00fae8e05187000b 2008-09-20T20:55:06Z 2008-10-09T12:23:13Z karen http://serendipity.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Bill Maher and Paul Krugman "We Need Better Government"

I know that some people are finding it hard to decide who to vote for in November. I'm not sure why, since the choices seem so clear to me, but I hear and see the hesitancy around me and I've heard too many people say that they are just going to s...

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]]> Attack of the shiny object tag:vox.com,2008-09-15:asset-6a00b8ea0686dddece00fa969abf4f0003 2008-09-15T06:00:25Z 2008-12-25T04:40:16Z karen http://serendipity.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I often use the term "shiny object" to describe situations in which I willingly - sometimes gratefully - allow myself to be distracted from the thing I'm supposed to be thinking about but don't because it’s too hard, too serious or too important...

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