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Four days before my 50th birthday, I am getting a mammogram. It is my second. Yes, I know that I should have started at 45 and gotten yearly ones. But I am a slow adopter, and I confess to having a modicum of anxiety about the whole “breast sandwich” thing.
But then I had [...]
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My son has been alternatively-schooled and unschooled 11 years, and in public school for not quite one year. He was in a non-traditional daycare and kindergarten (Waldorf-inspired and Waldorf-proper) for the first six years, then in a charter school for five years that emphasized community responsibility, consensus building, theme-driven multi-year curriculum and individual [...]
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First of all, unless I do three entries a day, I am not going to get to 50 by next Sunday, which IS MAH BIRFDAY!!!! yay! yay! I’m not mad enough to try that, or think that it would be worth reading. But I may continue with daily entries until I indeed do [...]
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Call me “Four Eyes.” Actually, I have bifocals, so that would be “Six Eyes.”
One part of aging is the inevitable need for glasses. This started for me in my mid-30s when I was in graduate school and reading a lot. But I didn’t believe it. I look back and see the truth now. [...]
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Forgive me for just a moment, for not being fluffy, funny or pointless. This is a particularly important day for me, historically, as an American and as an Air Force brat.
Today is June 6. On a pretty day in summer, 64 years ago, a whole lot of men, young and old, landed in [...]
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(27 of 50) (not to be confused with Greta Thragnusdottir’s magnum opus – a much later but fragmented text which is considered to be the first Icelandic historical romance)
I suppose it is time to begin the story about how I discovered these Icelandic texts. I had always meant to reveal them in appropriate academic channels, [...]
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Memorial Day Weekend, originally uploaded by tigerwillow.
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Some days, you have to work. Some days, you need to play with Sculpey. And sometimes you just have to ride the rollercoaster.
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June is my favorite month of all. Not just because my birthday is in the middle of the month, but because it’s usually the beginning of summer holiday, it’s warm and sunny (or stormy) but never cold. Rarely is it cold. (I know it’s cold int he mountains and elsewhere in June, even [...]
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