Archives in Category: Special Events

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101

Posted on June 21, 2019

Were she alive, my Mother would have celebrated her one hundred and first birthday today. And it would have been in fine fashion. She was always proud to be born on the longest day of the year, although I’m not

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Father’s Day

Posted on June 16, 2019

Or is it Fathers’ Day?

I’ve never paid much attention, since I didn’t meet my own father until I was forty-eight. And we never really acknowledged what I call this Hallmark holiday.

Still, a conversation with my son this evening

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Reflections

Posted on June 8, 2019

Anyone who knows me well knows I assumed I would not reach my seventy-fifth birthday, because I never wanted to court loneliness and health issues alone. My husband is nine years older. Should he pass away before me, there are

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75

Posted on June 7, 2019

It’s early morning. The doorbell rings.

My neighbor stands on the other side of our storm door, Besides living in the same community, what we really have in common is cancer. We see the same oncologist.

I open the door

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And Done

Posted on March 2, 2018

Of course the last day didn’t go down easy. In the middle of my session, Liam broke. The technicians waited to see if it would reset, joking that this was an omen which meant I needed

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One Day

Posted on February 14, 2018

Today Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day coincided. It’s the first time in over seventy years. The New York Times noted this with great hyperbole, as if you must celebrate one event by ignoring the other. I disagree. Why not celebrate

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A Weekend of Dancing

Posted on February 11, 2018

Yesterday Earl and I saw “A Chorus Line” in South Bend, and today a friend and I saw “The Greatest Showman.” The first was live theatre and the second was at the local cinema. What they had in common went

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Super Bowl Date

Posted on January 21, 2018

My friend Judi and I talk every couple weeks.  She lives in Arlington Heights, IL, where I once lived years ago. In fact, she’s lived in the same house since the early 1970s while I have had myriad address changes

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Done

Posted on January 7, 2018

Today we de-Christmased our house. It wasn’t exactly like defrosting the fridge or delousing something, but it did have the same cathartic quality We were back to where we were before Christmas started.

Earl was at church when

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Back from the Holidays

Posted on January 2, 2018

It’s been over a week since I’ve blogged. It wasn’t intentional, but I know that whenever we have houseguests my personal routine goes out the window.  No piano playing, no reading, no blogging.

It’s natural if you want

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