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Step Child
"One of these things is not like the others; one of these things doesn't belong." Do you hear that jingle, instituted on Sesame Street on episode one, rummaging around in your brain? Does it resound, helping you to notice aspects of unique, independence, and to...
Pole barn dance
My father, a member of the Greatest Generation, proved himself at age 70 to be ‘forever young’ by building a pole barn with his brother who was 72.
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Dark Chocolate Thoughts
As women, we are all going through the same life, albeit in divergent times and tracks. Some lead lives of quiet desperation, to paraphrase a famous book. Some are like Martha and some are like Mary, as parabled in another. Some feel fully alive, bristling with...
Edgy and at ease
A widely accepted convention of love is that opposites will attract. It's proof is under our roof: my husband, whose natural skin tone is the tan to which I aspire, married the lassie of peaches-and-cream, skin that necessitates sun screen, not nonchalance. Freckles...
Living Life as a Miracle: a trip to the Holy Land
The over-large postcard arrived in the mail, heralding an appealing offer: the maiden voyage of a Celebrity cruise, an eight-day Mediterranean itinerary that included the Holy Land. Two days in Israel, not a large country, but laden with Christian treasures and...
Muse – eum
Nature is - an ever-changing art museum. How lucky I am to have unlimited admission. Where should I go to luxuriate in her glamour today, tomorrow, this summer, soon? After six sets of house guests since January 1, hostessing other people's vacations in our home,...
Bounce Back Bozo
If you could choose a cartoon metaphor for yourself, who or what would you be? It's a great conversation starter at a party - try it sometime! A group of friends chose Charlie Brown for me. Whaddayathink? You recall the hapless champion of real, who sought the tender...
Objective and Accurate; Curious and Daring
Objective and accurate; curious and daring, nuanced as a steel guitar. As rare among people as a Dobro, the guitar pictured in a vast funky painting in our family room. Our high art is a sepia-washed, larger-than-life photo of a brush-haired male Dobro player, a...
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