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Wear the pearls, use the good silver –
"Wear the pearls, use the good silver, don't wait for a rainy day." Words my mother said as she cruised the displayed wedding gifts at our reception. We married in the living room of my parents' home, with the reception in the dining room, where a sliding patio door...
Keeping up with the Jones – who dat?
Tis the season to be jolly. Tis the season to shop.
Life as a Miracle: Sunday Safari 1991
For two dozen years, Soroptimists, an international service organization for women, consumed my spare time. Most often it was a good thing, a boon to my life. Because I was in solo private practice, and did not earn my speech-language pathology degree in this state, I...
Life as a Miracle: Several Spontaneous Remarks
Remarks to treasure, spontaneous, unbidden, unaffectedly spoke, uncontrived. Do you have any that linger, locked into memory, to brighten your life?
Life as a Miracle: Rosalinda and Cindy
Though Rosalinda was a career woman whose work seldom took her to Irvine – she was just across town and rushed to hold my hand. And Cindy, who had just ended her career, lived down the block.
Life as a Miracle: Go West, Young Woman
Go west, young woman, to find yourself. It was a mantra of the ’60s’, do she did…
Life as a Miracle: It’s a Mad World
It’s a mad world achievers live in. She’s a vortex, as am I. Life works better when women stand side-by-side. She’s one of the few who live the lesson learned.
Constant Comment, my mother’s favorite tea
I inherited my penchant for story-telling from my dad, who used incidents from his boyhood to help put us kids to sleep. I think it was a necessity because my family couldn’t afford children’s books and we lived in a very small town without a library. I adored the intermittent bedside tales.
Life as a Miracle: ATT to phone home
The Loma Pieta, CA earthquake occurred on this date at 5:04 p.m. I’d just begun two things I never do:
1. turn on the World Series, largely because it was two crosstown rivals in the Bay Area, and
2. mount my exercise bicycle to watch. I was home from work, alone, because Larry was at work, at Apple Computer Company in San Jose.
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