Dinner With An Old Friend
Do you have one of those friends who you can pick up with no matter how long it’s been since you visited with one another? The one that feels like a well-loved cozy sweatshirt? Meet an old and very favorite friend…
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A Triple Headache
Say hello to my three little headaches, fondly known as Rotten Cats One, Two, and Three. Kidzilla and I are attempting to grow sunflowers and Gerbera daisies. The Rotten Cats think they are kitty snacks. The Rotten Cats are wrong. Very wrong. On a positive note, please notice the vacuum cleaner marks on the side…
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Snack-Sized Wisdom
I love quotes. I love words in general, but quotes are the best. When I was a kid, I read every single “Quotable Quotes” section in the Readers Digest every single month. Loved them. I still love quotes. They are like snack-sized bites of wisdom. Need a quick fix? Have one. Need more? Keep going…
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Headstones and Homesteads
I ran an errand to the mall today and ended up sitting at my Grandparents’ grave site. I don’t know why, really. I’m not much of a grave visitor. I had a rough day today. But I’ve had other rough days and none have sent me running to their grave. Perhaps it is just that…
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Scrubbing Pots
My husband hates scrubbing pots. He is, in all fairness, really pretty willing to clean up the kitchen after I cook and he rarely complains. But pots are his nemesis. Particularly, pots with anything stuck, splattered, or burnt on them.
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Five Friday Favorites – New Favorites Food Edition
I need to talk about food. OK, I always need to talk about food. But over the last couple of weeks, we have celebrated both Passover and Easter with all kinds of great new things to eat. Of course we’ve eaten a lot more than five things recently – a lot more – but here…
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Potentially Useful Skills: A Follow-Up
My Mom always says, “Half of being smart is knowing what you’re dumb at.” How true. And the older I get, the smarter Mom gets, of course. Maybe it’s just that as we mature, we realize that our parents actually do know what they’re talking about. They do have all that experience they lay claim…
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On Burdens, Strength, and Balance
No, I have not abandoned my blog. Honest. I have not left the country, joined the French Foreign Legion, won the lottery, or found a vacancy in a colony on the moon. Kinda feels like it, though. I’ve been feeling a bit like Dorothy, whirling about in the cyclone of life.
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Relatively Useless Skills
It’s been a week full of the stuff of life around here. Pretty exhausting stuff. I’d love to be transforming the many things in my head into fantastically entertaining posts, but the demands on my brain have been elsewhere. As you can plainly see, I have not even attempted to come up with a more…
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A Standing Date
On the night they met, my Grandmother told my Grandfather that he was crazy. I’m pretty sure she told him that many more times over the course of their life together, but that night was the first – at least that’s how I remember the story. My Grandparents were practically babies when they met – 14…
