The First

Sneaky Boy Money Making Tactics

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Gram and Papa Clyde took all of us to IHOP this morning before they headed back to Memphis. We dined sumptuously on pancakes, french toast, bacon, eggs, hash browns, biscuits and gravy, and the Maker and the Ice competed to see who could drink more of the little creamers in the baskets on our three [...]

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I Forgot to Figure This Out in Advance

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I wasn’t sure what to expect, even though I used to be a teenage girlfriend. I think I just had my brain so laser-focused on raising three little boys that I didn’t consider what it would be like to raise three towering-over-me boys and their magically expanding universe of friends. I may have sort of [...]

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Are You A Feminist?

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I was recently interviewed by Marie Hardin from Penn State’s Center for Sports Journalism about how women who blog about sports are empowered through blogging and use their sites for feminist activism. It was a pleasure to speak with her about my blog, my boxing, feminism, women’s sports in general and the Women Talk Sports [...]

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60 Seconds of One Liners

60 Seconds of Jokes after Dinner from Lisa Creech Bledsoe on Vimeo. Facebook friends, as usual you’ll need to click through to catch the hilarious one-liners that The First and The Maker tossed off over fudgesicles after dinner last week. I marked my favorite of all these on the vid itself, but you can take [...]

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Men With Mustaches

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Who doesn’t love a Wack-O-Wax mustache? It’s fun to say, even if you already ate your ‘stache: wack-o-wax, wack-o-wax, wack-o-wax. They are reputedly grape in flavor, but I’m gonna say… um, okay, we can call it “grape.” Sure. But more importantly, Wack-O-Wax’s Mr. Stache goes with every outfit for every occasion! And at 99 cents [...]

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What to Wear to Your First Gig, If You’re Four

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Our boys have grown up in a rock house. See exhibit A, the Maker, above; they’re groomed for it before they’re outta Huggies. But the First, being first, set the bar for his younger sibs, and he did a pretty fair job of it. When he was four years old he had two friends at [...]

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On McDonald’s French Fries

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My recent post about Why Your Workout Isn’t Working prompted a funny chain of comments on Facebook, which I totally enjoyed. Most of them related bad food favorites, and McDonald’s was named in the very first comment (Hi, Greg!). Sigh. I love MickeyD’s french fries more than any other fast food french fries. And back [...]

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The Perfect Jersey Number

The Best Jersey Number Ever from Lisa Creech Bledsoe on Vimeo. This is a short little story about the First that I hadn’t thought of in years, but it’s a great one because it’s just so like him to think of something like this! Facebook friends, just click on the link above (or the “view [...]

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Rock Boys

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Saturday Aftershock played Connolly’s in Cary, NC, and since it was an early (7 to 11) outdoor show I took all the boys to see their dad’s gig. This is a fairly rare occurrence for them since most of the Husband’s gigs are very late at night in smoky bars and not ideal for the [...]

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The 2007 Pre-Teen Boy Gift Trifecta

The gift thing is kind of low-key in our house compared to most people I know. However, the gifts our boys do receive get preferentially ranked by them in ways I would never predict. 3. Digital Entertainment: Pokemon and Pirates Well, this one I can predict; what surprised me was that it turned up at [...]

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