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The Short of It

Posted on June 17, 2006

At five feet tall, I’m short. I guess I’ve always been short; but since both my legs reach the ground it’s something I’ve never really paid attention to.

That is, until Earl came home a couple days ago, having been

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Upstate New York

Posted on June 12, 2006

I’ve been gone from the blogging scene over a week. In fact, I’ve been gone from contemporary society equally as long, as Earl and I drove to upstate New York to visit the area where my early relatives settled, created

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Out of Range

Posted on June 6, 2006

Anne will not be blogging until the week of June 11, as she is out of Internet range, believe it or not. Please consider reading some of her other Ten Minute essays.

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Gravy vs. Sauce

Posted on May 30, 2006

As I lay in bed this morning, my brain was doing push-ups while my body hadn’t even arrived at the gym. “Hey,” said Brain, “what’s the difference between gravy and sauce? How do airplanes stay up? I wonder when Earl

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Piano Progress

Posted on May 26, 2006

I am in my fifth year of piano lessons. It isn’t that I’m a slow learner; rather, my piano teacher says I’ve been a musical cripple most of my life. Ever since that nun in charge of the grade school

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The Oyster Bar

Posted on May 17, 2006

One week ago today I arrived in New York for my semi-annual visit to that city. As usual, my son, his partner, and I met for dinner at Grand Central Terminal’s Oyster Bar. It’s become a tradition every time I

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Piano Etude

Posted on April 24, 2006

I am now well into my fifth year of piano lessons; and, if talent rules, then logic suggests I should quit. I will never be a good, much less great, pianist. At the same time, the humbling experience of a

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Ketchup

Posted on April 19, 2006

I frequently wear short sleeved knit shirts, both in winter and in summer; so I have a variety of colors: lavender, coral, pink, green, blue, white, etc.

It doesn’t matter what color I’m wearing on any given day, invariably I

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Easter

Posted on April 17, 2006

Yesterday was Easter Sunday and maybe it was Passover too; I’m not sure anymore. Time was when I spent not only Easter Sunday but also much of the previous week in church. But that time is as long gone as

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Heading Home

Posted on April 2, 2006

As the crow flies, it’s almost six hundred miles between our home in Michigan and Spring City, Tennessee, where Earl’s parents lived and where — up the road — they are now buried together. As the road winds, it’s probably

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