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Velveteen Mind

Velveteen Mind (VelveteenMegan): 31, Female
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Name or Pseudonym:: Velveteen Megan

About Me:: Relish the Velveteen. Revel in the Threadbare. Life of a mom articulate.

Mom of two toddlers, juggling the chaos of a life rebuilt from the sand up. Unstable? Yes. Always an intriguing challenge? Absolutely. Revel with me!

Find my daily NaBloPoMo posts on Velveteen Mind. By "my" posts, I mean me and my guest bloggers via GoBloMeMoFo, the lazy blogger's answer to NaBloPoMo. Because no way in hell I can do this without you! We won't win any prizes, but we'll have a rebellious good time!

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All Things Velveteen

The Trouble with Pies

A pear pie made me stop blogging. Rather, the promise of a pear pie. No. Precisely, the absence of a pear pie. The day before we evacuated for Hurricane Gustav a handful of weeks ago, I dropped by our elderly neighbor's home to find out what their evacuation plans were and to share my family's. They are a wonderful couple that have lived in this home for over thirty years, friendly and both interesting and...

Hot Spot Hopping

Today, I collected coffee cups like a hipster collects nightclub hand stamps. After dropping off the boys at their preschool, one of two days during the week when they are both there, if only for a few hours, I decided that I would load up my gear and get some work done at our local Barnes and Noble. I have always envied the oblivious laptop users I would see in cafes, so it was high...

Facebook is Giving Me an Identity Crisis

Have you ever felt an unexpected shift in the core of who you are? You are trucking right along and suddenly realize that something has changed? Imperceptible shifts in your course, happening over time, until you abruptly find yourself in a different place than you planned. You find yourself a different person than you expected. Perhaps this is simply growth. Perhaps this is simply growing up. Perhaps I'm simply losing my mind. That last one...

Gravel Paves the Road to The White House

The sound of gravel crunching under slow-moving tires is the sound of the small town to me. The sound of cicadas on a warm summer evening, while you wave at your neighbors honking as they drive past your home. That is small town life. I grew up in a small town of 5,000 in Southern Illinois. Our town was the metropolis of our county, or so it seemed to me. We were surrounded by towns...

5 Minutes for Moody Obscurity...

My 5 Minutes for Moody Obscurity are apparently up. Following our evacuation for Hurricane Gustav, I found myself in a grumpy bout of emotional exhaustion. Nothing particularly dramatic happened, however the entire evacuation process followed by long hours of waiting and watching just drained me. We returned home to a battered coastline but a safe and sound home. I would think I was over being moody, go down to the beach to take photos to...

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At 8:40pm on November 21st, 2007, mama's got moxie said…: cool blog!!

At 5:26pm on November 13th, 2007, Lisa Roberson said…: Hey there, lady!! :)

At 5:26pm on November 5th, 2007, Veronica F said…: Hi! *waves* I'm off to looksee at your blog now.

At 1:52pm on November 5th, 2007, Serina said…: Hi! I knew you would have a good southern group I could join. Maybe we should start a Mississippi Bloggers group. Of course, we are the only 2 that I know of :)

At 4:30pm on November 4th, 2007, Anna said…: Love the Velveteen Mind, glad to see you here!

At 9:04am on November 4th, 2007, Missives From Suburbia said…: Helloooooo!!

At 4:53am on November 4th, 2007, moosh in indy. said…: I'm poking my tongue out at you, it seems appropriate.

At 3:43am on November 4th, 2007, Allison Worthington (Mrs. Fussypants) said…: Oh, Velveteen, my favorite magician!

At 11:13pm on November 3rd, 2007, Lotus Carroll said…: Everytime I visit your page, I am full of thoughts of my most favoritest book from when I was a wee one.
I still have it, and I can't wait to let him have it. *sigh* He IS a real bunny.