This blog has moved to www.margaretmaloney.com.

A- Age you got your first kiss: 14. On a Friday evening in March in Natick, MA ( Read more... )

And I bet none of you have any idea what this stuff means...

You Know You're From Alabama When...

You have a party or a barbeque whenever Alabama plays Auburn in football ( Read more... )

None of my LJ friends have commented on my new blog. So switch already! Look, I've even got an enticing photograph. Oooooooh....


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Since I've moved my blog to margaretmaloney.com, I've created a syndicated feed for my friends on livejournal to use so they can still read my blog on their friends page. Just add polkadotzebra to your friends list.

Check out my (tentative) move to Typepad: http://www.ocherdraco.typepad.com/polkadotzebra/

This Friday night was the oh so wonderful HRG&SP Wine and Cheese which was hosted by the ever lovely Cambridge Ridley and where fun was had by all. Fun was had by me until I got a look at myself in Cambridge's bathroom mirror-- there was no denying it: I've gained weight! So, Saturday morning, I weighed myself for the first time in a good long ( Read more... )

It is very much a rather blustery day today here in Cambridge.

I saw Seamus Heaney in the bookstore this morning. It's kind of nice to see a really good poet walking around, appreciating my favorite bookstore as much as I do. While there today, I bought American Gods, a novel by Neil Gaiman which I've just started reading ( Read more... )

To quote Alexander:

It's been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. I think I'll move to Australia [or maybe Canada].

Have you ever heard of a children's book called "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" by Judith Viorst? There were times today when I felt like Alexander.


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