Word of the Day.

bissextile (by-SEKS-til) adjective Of or pertaining to the leap year or the extra day in the leap year. noun Leap year. [From Latin bisextilis annus (leap year), from Latin bissextus (February29: leap day), from bi- (two) + sextus (sixth), from the fact that thesixth day before the Calends of March (February 24) appeared twice everyleap

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So what do you know?

Kate over at Accidental Hedonist has a list of things she wishes she’d known at 20, now that she’s 40: Beer comes in flavors. Hollywood produces hype better than they produce entertainment. Most television news is entertainment disguised as “the public’s right to know.” That gets me thinking (although I’m not yet 40). So here

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Lo-Cal Literature

Check out DailyLit, which offers small chunks of big books in your inbox daily. “We created DailyLit because we spent hours each day on email but could not find the time to read a book. Now the books come to us by email. Problem solved.” Lots of the classics, naturally (they’re in the public domain),

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Home again!

After a long trip home, complicated by 1) a terrible sunburn (I greased Ray up but not myself), 2) a cold, 3) PMS, and 4) a sleepless night, but relieved by a) a terriffic husband and b) a good kid, I discovered that i) the house had not burned down, ii) the cat had not

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The Oracle of Starbucks.

Behold the Oracle‘s wisdom: Personality type: Freak No person of sound mind would go to an EXPENSIVE COFFEE SHOP to get a drink WITHOUT CAFFEINE. Your hobbies include going to ski resorts in the summer and flushing $5 bills down the toilet. You are a menace to society. Also drinks: Non-alcoholic beer Can also be

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