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Posted on June 4, 2011

My Mother always said: “I love to go, but I love to go home.”

I think of this when Earl and I return from a trip. It doesn’t matter if it’s a visit to family or a cruise or

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Forty-Seven Years Ago

Posted on November 22, 2010

Almost two generations have grown to adulthood since John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, was shot and killed in Dallas on a bright November afternoon on November 22, 1963. In the space that gunshot occupies, the

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Marathon Man

Posted on August 1, 2010

“Hey, Mom,” my professor son said as we chatted long distance this afternoon. “It’s been thirty years since we did our first marathon.”

Kevin is kind to use the plural “we.” He did all the work; I went along for

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A Day Late

Posted on December 8, 2008

Yesterday was the sixty-seventh anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. How many people are alive who remember it? I’m sure there are many, but fewer and fewer as the years go by. I was only six months

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A Hole in the Fabric

Posted on May 18, 2008

The message waited patiently in voicemail until we returned from dinner last night. I listened to it twice in disbelief and then checked the day’s obituaries for confirmation.

George, the handyman who had helped us repair, paint, and improve our

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Christopher Robin

Posted on April 20, 2008

Not many people care and fewer people remember that the fictional Winnie the Pooh’s best friend, Christopher Robin, was fashioned after a flesh-and-blood child, the only son of the author of the famous Pooh stories.

During the real Christopher Robin’s

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Primary Disappointment

Posted on January 31, 2008

In the past couple days, Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat John Edwards have dropped from the race for president. Giuliani now endorses John McCain, while — as of this writing — Edwards has not declared his preference between Hillary Clinton

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Snapshots

Posted on January 17, 2008

The next primaries aren’t until this Saturday, January 19, so I’ve entertained myself with watching the premier of the new season of “American Idol.” A couple moments even brought soft tears to my eyes, which is more than I can

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Good Times

Posted on January 7, 2008

Earl was cleaning out some boxes recently and came across three postcards I’d sent him a decade ago. I’d gone to France to visit some long-time friends and kept him apprised of our activities from time to time.

The

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Happy New Year

Posted on January 1, 2008

This is my first blog for 2008. Earl and I spent New Year’s Eve with old friends. (I’m talking how long I’ve know them here; not their ages.) We’ve ushered in the New Year with them before, so there was

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