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1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it!

Here’s what I got:
The Sedgwick County Zoo is an AZA-accredited wildlife park and major attraction in Wichita, Kansas. Founded in 1971 with the help of the Sedgwick County Zoological Society, the zoo has quickly become recognized both nationally and internationally for

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Last night, a dream came true. I made Thin Mints. The recipe is adapted from one at 101 Cookbooks. Her recipe is “all-natural.” I don’t keep organic powdered sugar on hand (or organic much of anything else, for that matter), so my cookies weren’t all-natural. They were, nonetheless, quite good. So good, in fact, that

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Yesterday, Rockford and I got a babysitter and went to the movies (and then to the grocery store, because we’re cool like that). I’m not sure what the last movie we went to was, but I think it might have been “The Chronicles of Narnia” two days after Christmas. If you know us, you know

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American Life in Poetry: Column 061 By Ted Kooser,U.S. Poet LaureateEverywhere I travel I meet people who want to write poetry but worry that what they write won’t be “any good.” No one can judge the worth of a poem before it’s been written, and setting high standards for yourself can keep you from writing.

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Baby fever Originally uploaded by nichole_e.

Moments before this little scene was captured …

Amy: “Aw, I think I just realized I have ovaries!”

I started watching “Alias” in its first season, in 2001. The year we graduated college, got married and moved to Missouri. The year I started my first “real” job. I watched the last episode tonight with some friends under a strict no talking, no mocking rule (which they violated, repeatedly) that I instituted because I

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Poppy and I took advantage of the beautiful weather today to lounge and play under the tree in the backyard. Rockford moved the playpen outside for us, and I spread the Army blanket out next to it. I finished reading “Atonement” while

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