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Shortest Day
Today is the shortest day of the year in terms of daylight, not in terms of length. In length, all days are the same.
Still, when Earl and I discussed this, he was eager to turn the calendar corner and
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While I Was Gone
“You haven’t blogged in a while,” said a friend recently. “You went to Talbot’s and bought clothing to visit New York, and nobody’s heard from you since.” She’s right.
So, in a nutshell, here is what’s happened in my life
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While We Were Gone
There’s a flip side to all the things we learned on our trip, and that is all the things that changed in some way in our absence. We arrived home last night to begin discovering them.
The saddest is
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Leaving, Not on a Jet Plane
I love the song “Leaving on a Jet Plane” sung by Peter, Paul, and Mary. I love it even more now that Mary Travers is no longer with us.
At the same time, Earl and I are taking road trips
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Just One, Please
The world of the super-pack is upon us, and I don’t mean the political version. I mean the world where you have to buy twos and threes when you only want ones.
For example, I needed a roll of paper
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First Snow
It’s Friday the Thirteenth, and this morning we woke to the first snow of the winter. (I don’t believe there is a correlation.) The weather forecasters were predicting several inches of the stuff, but in reality we probably got just
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Trick or Treat
Halloween is four days away, and usually I avoid it like the plague. Earl and I darken our house and go out to a leisurely dinner somewhere until the proscribed time for Trick or Treat is over. Then we skulk
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Showing My Age
I’ve always thought that something worth attaining required some work. College degrees are built on this premise; so are promotions in a company.
But evidently today’s world is different. Case in point: A giant headline in the Sunday Chicago Tribune
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Anniversary
Two years ago we sold our home on the St. Joseph River. We loved that home, but it was time to downsize even though it was the middle of the housing depression. Our property was on the market almost a
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Labor Day
It’s the last gasp of summer, although autumn doesn’t officially start for another couple weeks. Still those activities for which summer is noted pretty much come to an end tomorrow, Labor Day.
I was in downtown St. Joseph this morning
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