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  • Sookie’s Got It Going On

    Posted on January 26th, 2011 in HOWDINI by Kathy Olsen

    On the long, long list of why “Gilmore Girls” was one of the best shows EVER, here’s one:  Sookie was overweight, and nobody ever mentioned it.  The best friend of the main character, Sookie was overweight the entire series, as were two supporting characters (Miss Patty & Babette), but you never heard a word about it.  I watched this show …

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  • Finger, Meet Light Socket

    Posted on January 20th, 2011 in HOWDINI by Kathy Olsen

    At the end of baby #1’s second year of pre-school, she came home with a scrapbook filled with pictures of her activities throughout the year.  In one of them she was visiting baby Jesus in the church school’s manger scene, smiling like an angel, and sort of looking like one due to her halo of static hair floating around her …

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  • Your Chance to Win: The Autodesk® Homestyler® New Year, New Room Sweepstakes

    Posted on January 17th, 2011 in HOWDINI by admin

    We all know what it’s like to make (and break) New Year’s resolutions. Whether it’s going to the gym more, eating better or redecorating your place, it seems like many are broken by the time February rolls around.

    Autodesk can’t help you with that gym membership that’s collecting dust, but they can help turn your redecoration resolutions into reality with the …

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  • Welcome to 2010. I Mean 2011.

    Posted on January 4th, 2011 in HOWDINI by Kathy Olsen

    I can tell it’s early January not by the calendar, or the fact that every time I write the date down, I have to change the year to the correct one.  No, I always know it’s early January when I show up at the gym for my regular workout/hangout with either Regina (Tuesdays) or Jackie (most other days) and we …

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  • About This Blogger

    • Helen Jonsen is Editor-in-Chief of Howdini, a broadcast journalist turned digital and social media communicator. She has traveled extensively and covered news in the US and Australia. She is mom to four and aunt to many. For fun, she enjoys photography, hand-painting rooms and furniture, creating costumes, scrapbooking and gardening (growing weeds mostly). She has been known to let her children draw on walls and invite their friends to do the same!

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