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We Live in the Projects
The great garage make-over of 2012 has begun! Yes, you read that right: 2012. My husband is a R&D man. Rather, he's an R&P man: Research and Planner. I often thank God for Google - and Larry should, too. He's occupied for hours on end, looking for garage...
Women and Mankind
Why is it that Women have the Wo(e) of Men and Men have the Kind? A friend's recent lament about her loving husband of 25 years will serve as example: She and I are Playmates. Not Hugh Hefner's brand, though we could have been in our prime, if only he'd shown up with...
Lucky
"DO YOU FEEL LUCKY? It's the line from a classic movie which, because Larry and I were dating, I went to see, despite the fact that I hate violence - verbal or physical - and that movie had plenty of both. I kept my eyes firmly shut much of the time, like an...
Country Manor
Country Manor: it's where I aspired to live. I clung to a dream with a dead wrong boyfriend during the early '70s. It was the name of a store where my Hadleyware collection began, gifts from his mother who craved my entrance to the family. Its edifice starred in the...
What’s in a name?
Micawber MEANING: noun: An eternal optimist. ETYMOLOGY: After Wilkins Micawber, an incurable optimist in the novel David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens. His schemes for making money never materialize, but he's always hopeful that "something will turn...
Twelfth Morn
I hated to do it, but it needed to be done. I tossed out the final Christmas cookies, dipped pretzels, chex mix, and fudge. We had already eaten nearly all of the treats - and you can tell, because the pounds are all around me. Now, if I could only toss the poundage...
Living Life as a Miracle at an Airport
Oh-kay. Recently there were miracle posts and airplane posts and the two themes combined in a flash - done! Wait, there's more…this time we take you inside the airport terminal... We were returning from a trip to visit our families in the Midwest, arriving via plane...
Living Life as a Miracle: The eyes have it!
I wrote about Einstein's brain in a recent post, one of my pedantically-oriented writings (I 'know stuff' and like to share, but these sort of things don't come up in friendly talk, so I bring it up in blog). Because of Einstein's great brain, as well as his great...
Wired
I am wired differently than my husband, Larry. But that doesn't mean that either is wrong or right - or assuredly male or female. Or that he's bigger and better, though I affirm that he is. Or that either of us is left-brained/analytic vs right-brained/intuitive,...
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