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filling in the blanks
Okay! Here are the questions from the comments on the last post, and my answers. From Sarah: 1. Are there any daredevil things in the world that you think you’d like to do, but have never got around...
View Articleblogging fail: a numbered list
1. We went to Hawaii. 2. In Hawaii, we stayed quite busy sightseeing and eating delicious food and riding buses and walking (and walking and walking) and swimming in the pool and ocean and hanging out...
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from Omaha to San Diego
Unrelated ad is unrelated. California, here we come! At one of the gas stations we stopped at in central Nebraska, we saw these cool posters for the Huskers football and women’s volleyball schedules....
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reading is fundamental
It mystified me when I realized a few years ago that Annalie was actively resisting learning to read. I was an early reader—very early. I was barely three when I started reading easy-reader books. In...
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sunsets and clouds
Where we live, we have a great view from our backyard, looking west. That means we get to see a lot of gorgeous sunsets and beautiful night skies and dramatic cloud formations. And many airplanes,...
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geek critique
Me and my brother both wearing Doctor Who t-shirts. The geekiness is strong in my family. I came across this post in my archives and was surprised and amused to see that I was calling the show “Dr....
View ArticleI went to see Cloud Atlas
Troy was gone all this past week for work which is why, when he suggested I should get out of the house by myself for a couple of hours today, I went to see Cloud Atlas. I was intrigued by the preview...
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happy new year!
My favorite hat, knitted by my friend Jen Oh hai there. Yes, I’m still alive. Just out of the habit of telling you all what I’m doing. So…what have I been doing? Well, taking lots of sunset photos, as...
View Articlethe taste of memory
Years ago when we lived in Ottawa, there was a coffee shop in the Glebe that served this amazing sunflower-seed hummus and cucumber sandwich on triangle-shaped multigrain bread. I wasn’t a...
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right now I’m drinking peppermint tea with honey, listening to the dishwasher
Outside my window I can see the multicolored Christmas lights we keep strung up on our back patio year-round, and beyond that the lights of the city. I am thinking about the Morning Glory Muffins I...
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