Remember how I was in New York? You know, when I wrote the rare serious post? Yeah, well maybe you remember that we went sightseeing on Saturday in the beautiful weather. This is Charlie in Times Square, in front of an oh-so-scenic NASDAQ ad. If you’ve ever been to Manhattan, you know it’s a very [...]

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Saturday in New York City, the sky was brilliant. Clear, crisp air whipped through concrete canyons, providing a perfect counterpoint to the hot sunshine. Viewed from above (at the top of Rockefeller Center), the city shone in the bright light. Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Hudson River, and tall buildings stretching almost to the [...]

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For goodness’ sake. For the sake of goodness. Because goodness deserves your attention… You really should visit the GOODNESS Blog Carnival on Bridget Chumbley’s One Word at a Time. *** Before I go on, I feel like I should say, “And now for something completely different…” In Jerusalem last week, we visited Yad Vashem, Israel’s [...]

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Sky a vibrant blue. So bright that it makes your Whole face squinch up. Only hours before… All gray. Wet. Cold. And hours from now, Gusts will scud feathery Clouds across the blue. Wind rocking oaks and pines. Saplings and pillars of 100 years, And some will fall. But for now, a lull. Aching beauty, [...]

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I’m feeling rather poetic today. Why? Maybe it’s the view outside my kitchen window: Thin lavender clouds, strewn like tattered throw rugs along a pale horizon. (Is “throw rug” ever a poetic phrase?) Or it might be the song that’s stuck in my head: Trousers loosed, Abandoned to battle gravity – beltless. Imprudent-seeming, you Speed their [...]

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Today’s post is in honor of Beck, who’s STILL writing horror stories based on children’s books/shows. For those who don’t have kids the right age to know the show Caillou (KI-YOO) is, here’s a little taste of the horror : Did you watch? HE’S a kid you’d want yours emulating, right? Well, my son LOVED [...]

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Charlie and kids out. I sit on the couch, read, and chat on the Twitter. Time to go get girls, No way – my keys are missing. Where the heck are they? Search the entire house, Every surface in every room. Charlie’s gonna kill me. Where’d I leave them now? Third purse search yields them [...]

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The color fades from the sky, lightening to pale blue, which then grays as it gradually mixes with black. The first star appears overhead, and the tree frogs turn up the volume. Now they seem to drown out the noise of big rigs on the freeway just over the hill. And here on the side [...]

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I feel like this post isn’t exactly cohesive, but it represents all that’s swirling around in my heart and mind. So I hope you can bear with my musings… In elementary Spanish class, we all learned Hola and Adios for Hello and Goodbye. But it didn’t take me long to realize that only Spanish newbies [...]

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Flashback to 2003. The children are 6, 4, and 1. I’m trying to homeschool LC in kindergarten, and keep a preschooler and a toddler busy. I am slowly going insane. Writing is just a hobby; a blog (or any other publishing platform), a pipe dream. I won’t write with any consistency for another six years. [...]

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