Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Nov 25, 2009, 6:57 am
The smells of the classroom at the end of a school year seem to make the last day even better. Fresh warm air comes through the open windows whispering of the coming Summer's potential. Industrial...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Nov 23, 2009, 7:24 am
Many of you who have worked in customer service will recall a brief period, maybe a few hours on a Saturday afternoon, where you went above and beyond. You impressed someone with some comic improv whi...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Nov 22, 2009, 1:10 pm
Retail was just temporary. Seven years later. Isn’t it funny how you get a job in a certain field. It’s just a job. It’s not forever and certainly not a career. Seven years later the bulk of yo...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Nov 16, 2009, 2:57 pm
So there's this writer who has a blog. I found her a while back while doing some research on mold. Anyway, she writes these cool funny stories. They're fiction, she says. The problem is she ge...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Nov 16, 2009, 6:53 am
Five Weeks To Go...But Possibly Six Here I am in the final stage of pregnancy. I am 34 weeks today. (I think I miscounted a while back.) I have to admit that other people's pregnancy blogs kind o...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Oct 27, 2009, 7:34 am
So...31 weeks pregnant. Feeling creative in the sense that I have a room to prepare for the boy. Out of the loop on here, because I am wondering how I might make money after the baby is between 4 and ...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Sep 25, 2009, 7:09 am
Just a quick note to say I haven't totally abandoned you. Rest assured that I feel adequate guilt for not writing lately. I am simply trying to prepare my life for the newest member of our family ...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Aug 28, 2009, 7:06 am
Thicket to Paradise: Children can earn their keep in the garden | SavannahNow.com Shared via AddThis "Get outside and deadhead my black-eyed susans, or I will give you something to Tweet about!"
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Aug 26, 2009, 12:43 pm
I feel that to call someone stupid used to be a kinder, gentler, more congenial way of getting one's point across. Somewhere along the way, however, it became uglier than many of the four-letter w...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Aug 25, 2009, 7:11 am
"Can't we just go to a rest stop this once, Kar?" Doug asked. He already knew the answer though and began watching for an exit that might have a shopping center with a superstore of some sort. Kar...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Aug 21, 2009, 9:26 pm
Look, I'm writing the next part of the story. I am. I've just had a busy week. Have a seat. I will be right with you.
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Aug 19, 2009, 11:45 am
Karen couldn't wait for it to start feeling like a vacation. Her nerves were still fried from lack of sleep when they pulled into a gas station to fill up just outside Galena. Doug went inside to ...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Aug 17, 2009, 6:52 am
My husband and I recently learned we're expecting a baby boy. Well if that wasn't a cat whisker up the nose. We were expecting a girl! Naive? Maybe, but every parenting fantasy up until that p...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Aug 13, 2009, 7:07 am
I went to see the movie Julie & Julia last night, and I loved it. With any form of creative inspiration comes a certain amount of self-loathing. It arrives, usually, with thoughts like these: Why di...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Aug 7, 2009, 8:56 am
John Hughes has died, and I can't help thinking God could have just subscribed to Netflixs like the rest of us. This is hardly the first tribute to Hughes, and it will certainly not be the last. ...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Aug 5, 2009, 6:47 am
"I don't think that shirt you bought that says 'Cougar Hunter' means what you think it means," Doug gently told Karen as they began packing. She didn't hear him or pretended not to an...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Aug 3, 2009, 3:59 pm
"I don't see what the big deal is, Karen?" Doug said. They were bellied up to the tiny bar at the Galena Cafe. Karen thought it would be a fitting place to begin planning their trip. "It's no...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Aug 3, 2009, 7:26 am
Karen and Doug live in Galena, Illinois. Last May, at Karen's mom and dad's house, they started talking about where they might like to take their vacation that summer. Karen and Doug were goi...
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Christine L. posted an article on The Tuesday After That - Aug 2, 2009, 11:54 am
Mindy was half way to motherhood and had done very little reading on the subject. The small amount of literature she'd managed to thumb through made the future sound like a slurry of pain and bodi...
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