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Care to guess how a former child star manages to perform an ippon seoinage that's a dead ringer for the one used by the original Black Canary?

First two don't count.

My stepdaughter's currently sleeping in her room, but I'm not sure how long that will last. We're coming up on Mary's regular morning shouting time. My daughter has a very healthy pair of lungs, and for some reason she's decided that the last hour before lunch is exercise time. She isn't screaming: just being very, very loud. I think she's ( Read more... )

Funny thing, surfing. Sometimes I'm as prone to following odd tangents as the next Wikipedia user. This time around, I was sifting through reported homicides elsewhere in the country, seeing if I could find any similarities to the gang hits here in the Gotham/Bludhaven area ( Read more... )

Seemed like a good idea at the time. What better way to get the widest possible recommendation of children's books than through one of the librarian mailing lists? Okay, so I'm primarily a lurker there. Okay, so I haven't worked as a librarian in a while ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, te'sorthene.

I know your shoulder and knee are still hurting, so we'll make it a quiet birthday. Just you, me, Mary, and that cake I promised you. Plus your other presents.

I love you, Dick Grayson. Every day, every year, I realize how lucky I am to love and be loved by you.

We've got it down to a routine. Dick comes in, needing rest and meds, and he's bad about both of them. Gypsy tries to sit on his chest, which he protests, not so much because of pain but because she blocks his view of America's Most WantedI've given up on hiding the remote control. He looks too pathetic ... and with him out of commission, that ( Read more... )

Thank you, Dinah.

Don't hate her, love.

God, what am I going to tell Leslie? Or Selina?

Hang in there, B.

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Sometimes it's the little things, like him filling up the washer fluid and changing the oil in my SUV. Sometimes it comes in the form of a Cray computer and a pair of silk stockings with garter belt.

It's always wonderful when he reminds me why we're married.