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Lunchtime Poll

Lunchtime Poll: Cruisin’ Songs

It’s finally spring here, which means that it’s lovely for two weeks before the air feels like soup. 

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Ladyguides

Driving in the Snow

I never learned to drive in the snow. I always tell people I learned to pass an Amish buggy before I learned to drive on an interstate, but despite learning to drive in northeastern Indiana, I never learned to drive in winter weather.

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Perspectives

On (Re)Learning to Drive

I was never eager to drive, but I did take two different driver’s ed courses as a teen. After getting my license at 18, I immediately headed to college (living in dorms and then taking public transportation or walking), so I never got around to buying a car. Indeed, the last time I was behind […]

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Life

Baby, You Can Drive My Car

Because I don’t drive.

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Life

Commuting = Rage Blackouts

I am a pretty easy-going person (the laughter you hear across the nation would be how loud my friends and family members are guffawing about that claim right now), but contrary to popular belief, it’s true. Even commuting has been a relatively stress-free situation for me on the whole, and I have been doing it […]

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Open Thread

This OT is Driving with the Windows Down

Ah, the first really lovely week of spring. It brings back such memories! Of driving around for hours with my BFF with the windows down, the music, blaring, and then heat on because while it was fairly warm, there was still enough chill in the air that it got a little nippy at 65 mph. […]

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Parenting

Drive Up and Drive On

I wrote this post six years ago, on my personal blog, Gotchababy when I was just figuring out how to live life with a newborn. Six years and one more kid later, I’ve got it down (sometimes). Yesterday, a friend was talking about having to wait at Walmart with a sick kid to get a […]

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Feminism

Is Driving a Feminist Act?

I don’t drive. I never really learned. I realize this sounds ridiculous to some of you, but I grew up in a NYC suburb and was one of those over-achieving high school kids who decided that a bunch of extracurriculars were more important than driver’s ed. I started college in DC at 17, and well, […]