Archives in Category: Things to Ponder

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Only Child Syndrome

Posted on September 28, 2015

My husband and I are both only children, although we gave up being children ages ago.  Still, the personality trait persists.

We are not prone to sharing, giving in, or collaborating.  Instead we want our way and often don’t understand

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Quirk of Fate

Posted on September 20, 2015

Imagine what it would be like to go on a trip and return to find your home obliterated by fire.  Nothing left.  Not a stitch of clothing, a piece of furniture, or any artifact of family memorabilia.

Lest you think

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One More Time

Posted on September 17, 2015

Today Earl and I head west to St. Louis, Mo, so that I can commune with members of my grade school graduating class of 1957.  It’s our fourth annual event.  How many of you can say you’ve ever even attended

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Book Clubs

Posted on May 7, 2015

I belong to more than one book club; and, as it turns out, two of them met today: one in the morning at a local café and the other online this evening in the privacy of our respective homes.

I

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In Country, Day One

Posted on May 2, 2015

My son Kevin has described an in-country experience, particularly when you don’t know the language or the layout, as a time when you feel lost and stupid.  This certainly describes Earl and me at the end of Day One in

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Mr. Bock

Posted on April 30, 2015

Mr. Bock was Earl’s high school German teacher about sixty-five years ago.  I’d heard about him from time to time, mostly how he wasn’t able to explain his native language to Earl, who is half German, and how he cut

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Anne Frank

Posted on April 28, 2015

She wanted to be a journalist when she grew up.  And the truth is that while she was denied a long life, her journalistic skills have been heard around the world.

The Diary of Anne Frank details her life in

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Joseph Woodbury

Posted on April 27, 2015

Today Earl and I visited Normandy, the primary purpose of this cruise.  We’d originally planned to see it on a similar cruise in November, 2013; but weather intervened and we never made it.

Today we did, and a brief blog

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Changing Perspectives

Posted on April 20, 2015

Earl and I took our first cruise in January, 2001.  It was a seven-day adventure to the Caribbean, and I wasn’t particularly enthused about it.  But by the time we disembarked from the Grand Princess a week later, we’d put

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Keeping Passengers Happy

Posted on April 18, 2015

We will have been at sea for seven days before we stop at our first port.  Given the change in itinerary, the crew is working hard to keep the passengers entertained and happy.  Happy means fewer complaints.

But what does

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