I noticed that I wasn’t doing Holidailies about three or four days ago, and I kept thinking of things to write about. However, I never quite got the impetus or sufficient guilt to sit down and write. So much of what I want to say is mundane to the point of utter solipcism. So much [...]
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During the year, I seldom make cookies. There is only one person in the house who really can afford to eat cookies, and then there’s always the mother’s dilemma about sugar and teeth.
But in an attempt to get in the spirit, after three years of getting in a funk or a panic about Christmas, I [...]
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I have several boxes of them, and have been meaning to get cards out for the past few years. I just sorta stopped right about the time I got divorced. I’m not sure what happened. The good part is that I also stopped buying Christmas cards. I do love a good card, though.
Tomorrow, if I [...]
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I have no idea how far back I have set myself, but it’s nearly midnight and I’m behind on updating the blog, cleaning three rooms, laundry and prep for tomorrow’s deadline.
Why, you wonder, O Gentle Reader? Because I decided it would be a great idea to look at my yarn stash tonight. [...]
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“Why do people put up lights?”
The lad, he asks a good question. I know his is based on the silly ads from Target this year, combined with a green sensibility that he’s gaining from the last ten years of science education and marketing about climate change.
But it’s an opportunity to point out to him that [...]
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Today is Father’s Day. With all the talk about dads in the media, esp. commercials and advertising trying to get one to BUY BUY BUY something ANYTHING for Dear Old Dad, I have been rattling around in my mind about my own dad who has indeed departed this mortal coil. The pangs of sadness don’t [...]
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote a marvelous book called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. In it, he describes the ease and flow of our spirits when we have achieved an optimal level of competence in doing our lives and our jobs. With flow comes the success of doing a job well, but also the intense focus [...]
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I had the good fortune to spend time in the bosom of a friend and her family last week. And so many things transpired, at a subterranean level, deep inside my cold black heart, which meant so much to me. Without embarrassing her over much, I’ll just say that the hum of family life was [...]
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Twas the night before going back to school and all through the house
Creatures were stirring sleeplessly… including the mouse (gerbil).
We have dusted off the notebooks, found all the important pencils and pens required for school, collected fresh clothes, checked the lunchroom account balance…. and tomorrow it’s back to school. I also unearthed a couple of [...]
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Part of traveling is finding the unexpected, the serendipity, the extraordinary. Though we plan and plan for everything to “go without a hitch,” sometimes hitches make the journey very interesting. And sometimes, they just make it longer.
We got back to the airport to discover our car battery dead as a great box of dead battery. [...]
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