Archives in Category: Changing Scene

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Stretching

Posted on February 16, 2005

This morning I rediscovered a book I’d bought about twenty years ago. Titled simply Stretching, it came out at the beginning of the fitness craze. I was younger then, but no more or less fit than I am now; and

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Signs of Spring

Posted on February 12, 2005

It’s early, but I find myself thinking about Spring’s pending arrival. And I’m beginning to see hopeful signs despite the fact that by the groundhog and calendar methods, the official start to the season isn’t until March 21.

Pitchers and

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Yard Art

Posted on January 19, 2005

It’s the dead of winter; George the plowman is finding creative places to put the snow he’s removed from the driveway; he waves as I watch from my window. It’s stark outside this morning.

But beautiful.

The piles of snow

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Big House

Posted on November 18, 2004

Martha Stewart has been in the Big House for a few weeks now, if memory serves correctly. And, as we bear down on the holiday season, I’m wondering how Martha is faring. I have read she is writing a book

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Spam

Posted on November 9, 2004

When I was in grade school, Spam® was bone fide mystery meat my Mother served regularly. It came packaged in a rectangular tin, which she opened at both ends with a can opener. She then pushed out the contents and

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Shipshewana

Posted on October 31, 2004

Yesterday we ran away to Shipshewana for one last look at trees in fall bloom and fields where horses roam. It isn’t even two hours away by road, but it is a lifetime away in culture.

Shipshewana, Indiana, is the

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Checking Out

Posted on October 7, 2004

Earl and I drove to Grand Rapids, Michigan, yesterday to have dinner with his grandson and the grandson’s wife. We came back a couple hours ago, having had a wonderful meal and even more wonderful conversation. The guest bedroom offered

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Warning Signs

Posted on October 6, 2004

There’s a sense of panic in the autumn air. Leaves, which should be gradually turning their various colors, fall to the ground unchanged. Flowers bloom one day and wilt the next. Squirrels fight with each other over the walnuts that

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Dieting

Posted on October 4, 2004

When I was fourteen I went to Europe with my grandmother for seven weeks and returned home fifteen pounds heavier than when I’d left. That was cause for my first introduction to dieting. Back then, calories were the way one

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No Smiling

Posted on September 17, 2004

I went to my local Walgreen’s yesterday to obtain the two photos required by our government to have one’s passport renewed. Sure enough, in the photo department a woman waited with a Polaroid camera and a pull-down screen that provided

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