Archives in Category: Me/Family

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Reality

Posted on November 28, 2005

We’re home from our Thanksgiving travels, and plunked down into the reality of our remodeling and our discombobulated efforts on various fronts. In one sense, I’m glad to be here; in another, ouch!

There are four weeks minus one day

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Home Again

Posted on November 27, 2005

We’re heading home. Back through Denver International Airport. Then to Midway International Airport in Chicago. Then to our car and a one hundred mile trip down the road to our house on Derfla Drive.

I must attribute my mother, who

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Cousins

Posted on November 25, 2005

I have four first cousins, the children of my Aunt Alice and Uncle Dick. Aunt Alice is my mother’s younger sister, and she and I have an affinity that defies description. I leave it at that.

Even though we’re the

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Week Eight

Posted on November 21, 2005

The bathroom countdown continues . . . and continues . . . and continues. Will it ever be done?

Of course, certain phases are done. Demolition has long been over; upgrading the plumbing and the electric has come and gone;

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Back Again

Posted on November 17, 2005

Last year, on November 21, I wrote about the barrage of gift catalogs that had found its way to my door. Well, they’re back again.

Today’s mailbox yielded about half a dozen harbingers of the holiday season, each one enticing

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Exhaustion

Posted on November 16, 2005

I find I’m exhausted today, even though nothing particularly challenging or unexpected happened to sap my energy. Rather, I think reality just arrived on the doorstep.

We’ve had a glorious fall, weather-wise, but today a forerunner of winter blew into

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Proud Mom

Posted on November 13, 2005

I’m now back from NYC two days, enough time for my mind and my body to show up in the same place. And what are the two of them doing?

Well, they’re missing all the people in New York who

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Really Home

Posted on November 11, 2005

I wrote earlier in the week that visiting New York City was like going home. And I meant it. But it needs clarification . . .

Visiting New York City is like returning to the home of my childhood,

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In Sight

Posted on November 8, 2005

Yesterday, while I was packing and planning for my New York trip, I began to think the end of our remodeling project was in sight. Not in grasp, you understand, but definitely showing signs of visible progress.

While I’m gone,

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Not Lost in New York

Posted on November 7, 2005

So tomorrow I fly to New York City, and it’s like coming home. Sure, I get to see my son Keith and his partner Chris. I’ll visit their company headquarters and meet the staff too. In fact, that’s the primary

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