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A Tattoo Story, Part One: The Butterfly

December 13, 2011
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I don’t know if my mother knows this, but I have this special thing for butterflies because of her. More accurately, I have this special thing for butterflies because she’s constantly likening me to one. A social butterfly, a wanderlust-y never-in-one-place-for-too-long butterfly. Someone who flits about different groups of people, different cities, different interests. I [...]

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Sparkle

December 12, 2011
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Chris and I arrived in our downtown apartment here in Portland, Oregon on December 21, 2010. We were too busy unpacking and settling in to even think about decorating for Christmas, let alone getting a tree. I think our only “decoration” was this gorgeous red butterfly pin that my uncle (who just so happened to [...]

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Battery-Operated Neti Pots, Oregon Wine Country, Good Friends, and Home-Seeking

November 30, 2011

Mags to help improve your health & fitness. The Not-Just-Any-Neti-Pot Neti Pot | The Waterpik SinuSense* No, seriously. I’ve used a pretty traditional ceramic magic-genie-lamp looking Neti pot. I’ve used the little blue plastic “NediMed” Neti Pots. But this August, while at BlogHer, one glaringly weird piece of swag I received was a Neti pot [...]

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The One With All of the Travel. Again.

November 1, 2011

Titles to help you plan a getaway. So, I’ve been tweeting from all over lately. I was in Seattle last week, I’m in Las Vegas right now, and between tonight and next Monday, I’ll have hit various parts of Arizona and southern Utah before making my way back to Portland. Then, standby-gods permitting, I’ll be [...]

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Weekly Round-Up

October 22, 2011

This post is mostly for my mom, because she always asks to know where on the Internet I happened to be that week. For those of you who were also wondering that same thing, here’s a short list of… Other Places on the Internet Where Doni Showed Up This Week Food Writing | DishKebab, The [...]

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