Author Archives: maryjane

We’re pregnant!!!!

“We’re pregnant” is farm-speak for …

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Have you snapped lately?

Irving Berlin‘s song “Easter Parade” talks about finding yourself in the rotogravure.

What?

“The photographers will snap us
And you’ll find that you’re
In the rotogravure.”

Rotogravure. Merry-go-round? Snooty name for restroom?

Rotogravure \ˌrō-tə-grə-ˈvyur\

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One of those days …

It poured rain this morning—almost 1/2 inch in 15 minutes—just as our employees were coming to work.

Bubba showed up half awake. Or would that be half asleep?

Zephyrus

I was on a “pitch slam” panel of four magazine editors at The Creative Connection Event in St. Paul last month. During the month prior, potential “features” signed up and paid money in order to pitch who they are to us. The cross-section of women was fabulous and over time I intend to feature all of them—everyone from a woman who creates tiny victorian embroideries to a librarian who wants to write book reviews to a woman who traveled from Australia who specializes in zen doodling to a …

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Apparel Goddess Speaks

Ask and ye shall receive, the apparel goddess said. Apparently, my word-of-the-week,

Befurbelowed

brought a new skirt (and well, also a matching jacket) into my life.

I couldn’t believe my lucky lasso.

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Hear Ye!

Welcome New Sisters!

Merit Badge Awardees

The Book of Good Cheer

Published 1911, The Book of Good Cheer, p. 31 (last entry was from p. 23)

“There is only one way to be happy and that is to make somebody else so.”

-Sidney Smith

p. 36

“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus. It moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”

-Bulwer

The Many Faces of Jane

Jane this, Jane that. Jane then, Jane now. Here are some women who really Janed it! Can you add to my Janeology?

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The Book of Awesome

Simply put, The Book of Awesome is AWESOME …

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Zephyr

Zephyr. Bad gas? Distant cousin to sulphur? How about something related to dinosaurs? The big toe of a brontosaurus? Louis L’Amour sidekick?

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