After reading this Best of Holidailies recently, I’ve been thinking about how gift-giving happens in our family, with my Santa-believing, starry-eyed-over-Christmas kid.
Back in the olden days, when the Kid was a baby, it was absolutely true that you could give him a box and he was happy.
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My dear friend in Hungary sent me some awesome winter photos, taken this week. It’s wonderful to know that somewhere there really is a winter wonderland. I love the idea of a white Christmas, but really am glad I don’t need to dress in two pairs of socks, long underwear, shirt, sweater, vest, etc.
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Have you ever wondered if you can change your mind about a trip, even though you bought a NON-REFUNDABLE ticket? Me too. So I read the fine print on AA.com:
Fully or partially unused refundable tickets may be submitted to [...]
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Today, I wrapped presents. I did eight or nine presents in 26 minutes. I think that was my best time ever, and I attribute it to the kitchen island being cleared away for wrapping, and the deadline of school pick-up to motivate me to wrap rather than stash all the unwrapped things yet again.
My first [...]
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Really, I have no idea how to make it so people can comment. Obviously some are, so it’s possible. But I don’t see a setting anywhere to change.
Perhaps one has to register as a subscriber to my individual blog in WordPress? rather than simply have one’s own WP account? If you have good ideas, do [...]
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Following suit from Planet Pooks, a drabble is an extremely short work of fiction, exactly 100 words in length. Here goes.
Dale rode his Harley back to the muffler shop to see if there was beer left in the fridge where they kept leftover take-out pizza, raw meat for the dog, brake fluid and more beer.
“Dale! [...]
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Dan Fogelberg died yesterday. And I am sad.
This article gives a briefing. His official website has a link to The Living Legacy, a fan site I believe.
I saw him in concert with a girlfriend in 1979. We swooned – it was an acoustic solo concert. Piano and guitar. For two hours, he enthralled us. We [...]
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This time of year, I savor all the books that trot themselves out into the displays, advertising, front list and “must-read” conversation of people I know. I may not ever get to read all the books I want to read, but that would be a dark day, if it ever came. There are so [...]
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Let’s just say that THIS is a holiday classic in our house now. This links to a 49 second version (apparently videotaped from a computer monitor? does anyone have copyright to this?), but really to get maximum effect, you have to listen to THIS CONTINUOUS LOOP until your ears bleed. And whenever the phone does [...]
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It’s all around us all the time. But this time of year, the matters of life and death are on our minds more poignantly, and I have to wonder why. Both in a shake my fist at the sky kind of way, and a tender headtilt “there, there” kind of way.
Death. A car ran a [...]
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