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Small Acts

,9:22 pm

A writing friend wrote to me lately, “I am a bit discouraged about continuing on with my piece. First, some sad stuff happened next. I need to transform that for my own well-being ….and plus, I was just at such a fragile age – I really am bigger than age 14 now – and all […]

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Face Cloths & Trash Mountains

,11:35 am

My sister and I sit at the dining room table, post-breakfast, half-finished coffee cups between us. We’re in Florida on a short holiday with our parents, a rare treat, since I can’t remember our even taking vacations together when we were kids, let alone at our advanced ages of forty-two and fifty-one. We’re fixed on […]

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Keepers Shortlist One Fine April Morning

,11:09 am

Ok, some would say that this is not such a fine April morning. It is grey outside, overcast, windy, the sky showing no promise of the sun ever breaking through. I am happy to be here though, at the dining room table in my Florida winter home, happy to be sitting at my laptop, typing,  my […]

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The Miracle of Ziplock® Containers

,7:58 pm

We are keeping the plastic Ziplock® containers! My husband suggested I use old margarine tubs, for pete’s sakes. Clearly he isn’t the one who runs the kitchen. You try facing a half-dozen identical margarine containers stuffed into the freezer. Label them? Are you kidding me? Do you know how much time that takes, and – […]

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Kite in a Tree: the Republic of Play

,11:38 am

It’s an unseasonably mild spring day. A warm breeze buffets the tree boughs, the sun is out in full force. It feels like the middle of June, not the first of April. Everywhere people are out washing cars, puttering in gardens. In two different drive-ways kids are playing hockey. That’s not typical, seeing so many […]

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Keepers Shortlist: Easter Sunday

,12:49 am

In an email report from my mother: “We’ve not seen any great number of ants in the house. Just the daring few that show up in the bath tub and then get drowned for their audacity.” Watching my two year old grandson crack open an easter egg, carefully pick out the hidden chocolate chips and eat them one […]

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One Trophy I Kept

,1:30 pm

Scanlon Creek Mountain Bike Race 1995 Mountain Bike Race 3rd place, 1st place OK, I know this is actually a picture of two: one is mine and one is my husband’s. To see why I chose to keep these carefully chosen two out of a pile of glory, see Trophies I Gave Away, Memories to Keep.

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