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Playing the stock market
I don’t remember exactly why I opened a Sharebuilder account, but I know it involved free money. I think they offered to give me $50 if I opened an account, so I did. I’d never played the stock market...
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That time I missed out on a major national news event
Photo by J M Ell / by CC BY-NC 2.0 When I watched CBS Sunday Morning today they reminded me that it’s the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, which means it’s also the 20th anniversary of...
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I was the governor of the fourth grade
When I was in fourth grade I became the governor of my class. For one term, anyway. There were three terms and a one-term limit on service. Before that I was the auditor and afterwards I became the...
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Three days without my laptop
My brother once referred to my computer as the electronic extension of my body. This was before smartphones had even been invented too, but it was as true then as it is now. I rarely go more than 12...
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Charleston, South Carolina: Palm trees, peacocks, and pirates, oh my!
Charleston, South Carolina has been named the top city in America by Conde Nast for four years in a row, but my mother wants you to know she wanted to visit the city years before any of that happened....
View ArticleLet me know if you get spammed with an Adult Friend Finder ad
Earlier today a reader named Carol emailed me to let me know she’d “gotten an eyeful from an Adult Friend Finder ad” when she tried visiting jenful.com both yesterday and today. Then Donna on Facebook...
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JenFul.com is now JennetteFulda.com
Some of you probably spent this Memorial Day weekend at the beach or grilling in the backyard. I instead went on a coding blitz to redesign my blog and didn’t leave my apartment for three days. I...
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Creating vs. Consuming
At the Blend Conference last year I came into a session late after hopping away from two other sessions that didn’t quite grab me, and I was surprised to see the speaker wearing cat ears. I never...
View ArticleA long white hair
I picked a long white hair off of my jeans the other day. Long, as in at least 12 inches long. Even though I know I’ve had white hairs since I was 21, and even though I know that I have hair that is at...
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Who did it better?
Prince George and Princess Charlotte, 2015: The Fulda siblings, 1980: Sorry, George and Charlotte, but Big Brother and I were getting “awwwwwwws” for the kissing-your-baby-sister pose back in 1980. We...
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Charleston, again
It’s rather bizarre to see the location of your latest tourist jaunt turn into the location of the latest mass shooting. One moment I’ll be watching a news broadcast, feeling bad for the victims and...
View ArticleBad, back! Bad!
Yesterday afternoon I couldn’t get off the couch. When I say I couldn’t get off the couch, I don’t mean I was so tired or depressed that I couldn’t will myself off it, I mean I physically could not get...
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Stuff I like: July 2015
Part of the joy of liking things is talking to other people who also like those things, or telling people about those things because they might like them too. It’s like matchmaking, with media. So, I...
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Sex and power saws
I can hear my downstairs neighbors having sex. At first it was funny. The short grunts and the screams of “Yes! Yes!” sounded like a parody of people having sex. It was Meg Ryan in When Harry Met...
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Two weeks of Blue Apron: Six recipes, one blogger, and not enough bowls.
When the invitation to Blue Apron appeared in my inbox, I thought it might be spam. It was sent by my brother and promised a week of free meals. I’d never heard of Blue Apron before, but it’s one of...
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How hard is it to do your job? Evidently, pretty hard.
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of my time asking people to do their jobs correctly or straight up doing their jobs for them. First, there was the mailman who decided he’d rather leave a note in my...
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He can dunk his socks in my coffee anytime
In fourth grade my school put on a musical called “Feelin’ Good,” the existence of which I can find no trace of on Google, so I’m not sure who wrote it or how they acquired it. For all I know, a...
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Sorry, your Christmas card is now evidence in a postal theft investigation
When I checked my mailbox yesterday, I received a photocopy of the front of a Christmas card I sent nine months ago that looked like this: Bizarre, right? (But don’t you love my “Hello, Kitty” themed...
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Tales of travel and adventure
My travel posts have always seemed pretty popular, so I’ve compiled a list of them on this Travel and Adventure page, complete with intriguing thumbnail images. I included posts from this site and from...
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Stuff I Like: August 2015
Books My Fight / Your Fight by Ronda Rousey and Maria Burns Ortiz I hadn’t heard of Ronda Rousey until a few months ago, but if you get on YouTube you’ll discover that she’s a top MMA fighter who can...
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