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Great balls of fire
Posted on October 28, 2016 26 Comments
It’s curious how events often come together in a strangely synchronic manner. We had spent two months over the summer looking for a vacation home so we could be nearer to Deanna and Al and what struck me most about them each time we went touring, was their Craftsman charm, high prices (ouch), and most of all the […]
PsychD
Posted on May 1, 2015 15 Comments
I am always skeptical when ideologues start pontificating about American morality, but it is a subject that interests me, so I read and analyze anyway. David Brooks, with whom I do not agree politically, has written a book and some articles lately advising us to consider the quality of our eulogies above our resumes. Hmmm. He has […]
Appeal and core
Posted on April 17, 2015 25 Comments
This month I have been on my own ‘listening tour’, as I am learning more about you, my ever expanding community, and your approach to the same issues that interest me. 😀 What amazes me is that everyone I know was talking about the perils of online interaction this week. Tangentially, I was watching one of our 2016 hopefuls […]
To be or not to be … a parent
Posted on July 12, 2014 6 Comments
When I was on jury duty, we had a lot of downtime waiting on the benches outside the courtroom until our case resumed. In a previous post, I mentioned that the halls would reverberate with the anguished discussions of people involved in contentious divorces and child custody battles. I often sat next to a fellow juror in […]
Save Tigger
Posted on April 6, 2014 16 Comments
As I was sitting at my desk this morning applying the latest in one of my favorite nail polish lines (Essie) to my nails, ‘Go overboard’ — a rich, dark sea green, to coordinate with the five new outfits I have already lined up on the bench next to my bed for the week ahead, I was […]
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