Ed Taylor died recently.  I didn’t even know he existed until a week ago, when Earl mentioned his good friend’s passing.

It seems Ed belonged to Earl’s life before I came along. Still, in the past week I’ve come to

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Forty-five years ago today Martin Luther King was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. It was the height of the civil rights era.

As for me, I was five month pregnant and sleeping on a rollaway bed at

 … finish reading What’s Happened?

I think I’m finally coming to terms with 2013.  Today starts its third month; the days are longer, and I’m slowly getting on top of things after being on vacation.

The weatherman said this evening that we’re entering the thaw

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My husband reminds me once a month how long it is until Christmas; today was his reminder for February that we have ten months to go.  Ugh! That’s my first thought.  Then I remember this is a man who loves

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I’m still wandering on the “train of thought” route, looking at blips and blops and not trying to make sense of anything. So don’t think you have to make sense either.

Today is both Martin Luther King Jr. Day and

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I am disturbed not only by the timing of the NRA’s first public announcements after the horrific shootings in Newtown, CT but also by its solution to the problem.

First, the timing. It was one week ago

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