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Paging Doctor Wojo
By Michele Wojciechowski on November 12, 2020
My husband and I were talking recently, and it turns out that I’ve missed my calling. Instead of being a writer, I should have been a doctor. Not because I’d be great at medical procedures. I am so weak-stomached that I can’t even watch when I get my own blood taken. When my friends in […]
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Scare Tactics
By Michele Wojciechowski on October 29, 2020
I usually write a Halloweenesque column that focuses on the rules of Trick-or-Treating. But with the pandemic and quarantine happening, I figured that I needed a new theme. This year, I’m going to give you tips on What To Do If You Find Yourself In A Horror Movie.
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Fighting Over the Thermostat: Quarantine Edition
By Michele Wojciechowski on October 22, 2020
My husband and I love to play games. While we like everything from Taboo to Monopoly to Scattergories, there’s one game that we play all fall long. We call it “What’s the Thermostat set on?” We’ve been playing this game since we first got married. As the years have passed, the game is just as […]
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The Write Job, and the Wrong Ones
By Michele Wojciechowski on October 15, 2020
Although I spend time in this column making you laugh, I earn my living writing more than humor. One of the ways I look for work is to sign up on various job boards online. You would think that by just typing in “freelance writer” or “freelance editor,” I could find out about work in […]
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Mosquitoes Really Suck
By Michele Wojciechowski on October 8, 2020
When I was a little girl, I hated mosquitoes. Not that anyone actually loves the little suckers. But I really, really hated them. Because when I got bit by mosquitoes, the bites swelled up so bad that if I got them behind my knees, it was tough to bend them. Seriously. It was just awful. […]
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I play “Shook Me All Night Long” at Stanstock 2019!
By Michele Wojciechowski on August 25, 2020
I had the thrill of playing AC/DCs ” You Shook Me All Night Long” with Top Dead Center at the 2019 Stanstock Festival, held at the River Watch Restaurant & Marina in Essex MD. I had a blast!!!
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A Cut Above the Rest
By Michele Wojciechowski on August 25, 2020
Because we’ve been under quarantine for months now, many of us have hair that’s looking a bit–well, let’s say that sans haircuts or color or blowouts or…you get the picture. Our hair has seen better days. At least I know not to cut it myself. I did that once years ago, and it was a […]
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ABC News highlights Wojo and the 34 year overdue library book
By Michele Wojciechowski on November 5, 2015
Wojo and her extremely past due library book is highlighted here in the ABC News post “Maryland Woman Returns Library Book 34 Years Past Due.”
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The Washington Times feature on Wojo and the overdue library book
By Michele Wojciechowski on November 5, 2015
The Washington Times interviewed Wojo about her delinquency in returning Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Read the article here: Baltimore writer returns overdue library book 34 years late.
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Doggie Intuition
By Michele Wojciechowski on May 7, 2015
By the time you are reading this, I will have returned from my trip to New York City. I go once a year for a professional conference. As I write this, it’s a couple of days before I leave. But one of my dogs already knows. I have no idea how he knows, but he […]
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