Dana Starr
"I'm Coming Out Of The Woodwork, Chad"
Please watch the short video before you start reading. Also, take note: the words you read in quote marks are Chad's words not mine. Oh...
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Dana Starr
Nov 8, 20172 min read
Visions of Sugar Plums
It's still fairly early in November, and I already have visions of sugar plums dancing in my head. No, I'm not abusing mood altering drug...
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Dana Starr
Aug 4, 20173 min read
Not Good Enough
I'm climbing. It's steep. It's hard. I'm exhausted, but I must keep climbing. I'm ready to give up. I desperately want to quit, but I...
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Dana Starr
Jun 15, 20172 min read
Stick A Cork In It
Rah Rah Sis Boom Bah makes me think of cheerleaders which makes me think of the popular, skinny, pretty girls in school which makes me...
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Dana Starr
May 12, 20173 min read
Those Rocking Chair Days
This rocking chair is what Mother's Day is all about for me. It's a Bentwood rocker. My husband bought it for me when I was pregnant with...
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Dana Starr
Mar 11, 20172 min read
I Felt It In My Chakra
Oh, I’ve really been feelin’ my oats lately. I’m not entirely sure what that means, but I’m very sure I have NOT felt my oats in quite...
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Dana Starr
Feb 27, 20174 min read
Stayin' Alive
This is scary. I'm sitting in the doctor's office waiting to hear my fate. I've been waiting an hour and a half already and I'm...
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Dana Starr
Dec 10, 20164 min read
Second Annual Wish List
Stop wringing your hands, and clutching your pearls about what to get me for Christmas. You can calm down now because I've finally...
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Dana Starr
Nov 21, 20163 min read
Keep On Playing Those Mind Games
Don't have that third apple ale. Don't do it, I said to myself. But I did it. Don't finish that box of Triscuit left over from election...
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Dana Starr
Nov 8, 20164 min read
We're On Easy Street
OMG, TWD is kicking my OCD into overdrive right now, and that's making me stressed AF, and that is making me want to eat ALL THE FOOD,...
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Dana Starr
Nov 2, 20163 min read
Two For The Price Of One
There have only been a few times in the 56 years I've been on this earth that I've been ruined to the degree that I was ruined by the...
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Dana Starr
Aug 27, 20163 min read
The Place I Call Home
Sky and dirt. Heaven and earth. You see lots of both in the new movie Hell or High Water. If you've ever driven past mesquite trees and...
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Dana Starr
Jul 25, 20164 min read
Get Off My Lawn
I'm a 55-year-old white woman with gray hair and too much poundage. I look like a stern junior high school vice principal, or the kind of...
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Dana Starr
Jul 16, 20162 min read
Top Ten Rainy Day Observations from Budapest
10. Eating and making small talk with strangers on the Viking Prestige multiple times a day for multiple days is hella boring, so that's...
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Dana Starr
Jun 29, 20163 min read
I Need a Vacation From My Vacation
I'm leaving for a vacation in two days. The thought of a vacation seems ridiculous to me as my life is already a vacation, so I guess I'm...
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Dana Starr
Jun 19, 20163 min read
I Broke Baby Jesus and My Ass Too
I've been severely sleep deprived all week, so when I finally fell asleep last night I slept approximately 1,487 hours. I'm a tad groggy...
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Dana Starr
May 28, 20164 min read
Hills and Valleys
Accidentally brushing her paper-thin skin, he takes the skeleton key from her hand. He can feel the hills and valleys created by her...
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Dana Starr
May 17, 20164 min read
Ketchup is the Salsa of My People
I've only recently been made aware that other people do not think of ketchup as a major food group. Also, other people spell ketchup like...
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Dana Starr
May 8, 20163 min read
Starfish and Satellites
It's three in the morning somewhere off the coast of Spain. I'm wide awake on the Wind Star floating in the Bay of Biscay. I can't hear...
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Dana Starr
Apr 5, 20162 min read
Please Pass the Mustard
WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY?????? The Walking Dead is wearing me out lately. I haven't written about it in a couple of weeks because frankly the...
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