Archives in Category: Special Events

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What Month Is It?

Posted on August 8, 2010

I went into a local restaurant/gift shop earlier this morning to purchase a food item to go. But first I had to pass a phalanx of what looked like Cinderella costumes, witch costumes, and clerks dressed in ghoulish attire. I

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Marathon Man

Posted on August 1, 2010

“Hey, Mom,” my professor son said as we chatted long distance this afternoon. “It’s been thirty years since we did our first marathon.”

Kevin is kind to use the plural “we.” He did all the work; I went along for

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I’ve Been Gone

Posted on July 21, 2010

Two months ago today I wrote my last blog. In those two months various family events and issues have overridden any desire to write for the public domain. And to a certain extent, I still feel like I want to

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The Vancouver Olympics

Posted on February 18, 2010

We’re one week into the Vancouver Winter Olympics, and I am hooked. I’ve stayed up watching both the delayed telecasts and the live performances long after my usual bedtime. I’ve held my breath when skaters and skiers alike have wiped

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Monk

Posted on December 6, 2009

The television series “Monk” ended two nights ago. I’d been a devotee for most of its run, thanks to my Aunt Alice and Uncle Dick’s recommendation a while back. But in recent years I’d slacked off, preferring instead the clinical

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Remembering

Posted on September 11, 2009

If there was any commentary in the media regarding the anniversary of this date, I didn’t catch it. I didn’t read a newspaper or click on the television . . . deliberately. Instead, I spent the day remembering my son

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St. Patrick’s Day, #2

Posted on March 15, 2009

Tuesday is St. Patrick’s Day, and I’m celebrating it in an Italian restaurant called Sarello’s in Fargo, ND. It’s a long way to go to eat Irish cuisine, but I think it will be worth it.

My older son, Kevin,

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Sully

Posted on January 16, 2009

This morning I flipped on the TV while I washed my face, brushed my teeth, curled my hair, and made our bed. Everyone was talking about Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, III, the heroic captain of US Airways flight 1549, who

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I Shopped till I Dropped

Posted on January 3, 2009

Today Earl’s daughter Adaire and I shopped . . . and shopped . . . and shopped. If ever there was a marathon clothing event, this was it. We left at ten in the morning to hunt for bargains, track

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Stylin’

Posted on December 26, 2008

Today I’m going shopping with Earl’s daughter, Adaire, she of the fashion world. I don’t mean she’s a clothing designer or anything like that. Rather she has a keen interest in current fashion that I do not have, so I

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