March 2025

Influencing Death Review: An Unexpected Memoir

Between watching our studios dances and chaotic renditions of The Wobble as a hundred dancers waited for adjudications to begin, I finished TikTok influencer Penny Hawkins Smith‘s (@HospiceNursePenny) book Influencing Death. When the book arrived, I was expecting something akin to Mary Roach’s Stiff or Spook, but obviously the before death portion. Mostly informative, but

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Anatomy of a Dance Competition Weekend

Much like snow days, dance competitions have a certain flow to them. Since, it’s a dance competition weekend for us so I thought I’d share, and commiserate, with all of you how it usually goes. The Week Before Find out when you’ll actually be dancing. Up until this point, you’ve had the whole three days

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We Need to Talk About Family Vloggers…Part a Billion (Actually 3)

We’ve already talked about this here, and here but! There is actually a little bit of good news on the family vlogging front. Somewhere, someone is doing something! Incredible! I’d lost hope that it was possible for bureaucracies to actually give a shit about helping people, so I am going to revel in this small

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Book Review: Is There Something In The Walls?

This one is a long time coming. Life has been life and there is nothing like a family plague of norovirus to keep a blogger down. (Also, apparently it can give you a rash that looks like measles or chicken pox or possibly yersinia pestis and require you to rush your child to kids express

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