Archives in Category: Me/Family

Ten minutes to write. Less time to read.

And the winner is . . .

Posted on October 14, 2004

Well, they’re over. The debates, I mean. They reminded me of homework that we all had to do to be ready for the big exam on November 2.

I was at an Oktoberfest event last night, and almost everyone I talked

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Good Morning

Posted on October 9, 2004

Earl brings me coffee in bed every morning, because I hold the world’s record for taking the longest time to wake up. It doesn’t matter what time I went to bed the night before or what time it is in

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Sleeping On It

Posted on September 27, 2004

When I worked at La Leche League International as the Director of International Relations and Marketing, I often used the phrase “I’ll sleep on it” with my staff. It didn’t mean that I would actually go home, lay down, and

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Christmas

Posted on September 25, 2004

It’s an early autumn weekend, golden and glorious. Being the organized person I am, I’m not only thinking about battening down the garden hatches for this season but I’m also thinking about Christmas, which is three months from today. The

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Epitaph

Posted on September 23, 2004

A few days ago, I wrote about Robert Louis Stevenson. Through his writings, he was my childhood friend. Through mine, I hope he would consider me a fellow writer. But with only ten minutes to share something about him, I

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Tropical Storms

Posted on September 18, 2004

Spring City, Tennessee, made the national news yesterday, when it was cited by the media as an example of the damage Hurricane Ivan has done to the southeast. A city official was quoted as saying the main roads through the

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A Project

Posted on September 15, 2004

Nothing is simple, even when you hire a professional. Take the case of the new awnings we recently ordered for the front of our house. I’d chosen a color, which I thought would go well with the brick, the landscaping,

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Monday

Posted on September 13, 2004

Monday is everybody’s whipping boy. Most people have nothing positive to say about the second day of the week, since it is — for many — the first day of the workweek; and we’ve all been doing for two days

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Happy Birthday, Kevin

Posted on September 11, 2004

My older son, Kevin, was born on September 11 long before it became synonymous with terrorists and the destruction of the World Trade Center, long before the world knew of American military power and the Patriot Act.

So what does

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Goodbye Twolimes

Posted on September 4, 2004

They don’t call me Twolimes for nothing. In fact, that is one of my current email addresses on AOL, a name I’m about to shed.

It began when I accidentally started drinking Absolut at a cocktail party about thirteen years ago.

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