Ten Things Tuesday

1. My daughterless house is very quiet. I KNOW my kids aren’t asleep upstairs, or reading on the couch or hanging out outside or at their friend’s houses, but I still THINK they are somewhere I can go and see them. This will fade in a few days, I also know.
For now, Bob and I [...]

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Ready, set, off to camp

It’s that time of year again.
My living room is currently the home to overstuffed dufflebags, sleeping bags and bulging backpacks.  The sky overhead is black and stormy and while I pack the back of the car, I am hopeful the storms hold off.
Being the wonderful mother that I am, I took Boo and 4 of [...]

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CNN Dumbs Down Headline

Originally, the headline read:
“US rescinds July 4 invitation to Iran.”
Now, It’s “US DROPS July 4 invitation.”
Behold, the bottom line gets lower all the time.

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Pushy and Firm, Slightly Bitchy, but Victorious

I was there first.
In March of 2008, my family and I celebrated Boo’s Bat Mitzvah at a local convention center, nestled in the woods of northern New England.  The setting was gorgeous, the room spectacular, and the team – including a chef completely willing, nay excited, to create a meal from the organic and local [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday: Dealing with Difficult People

I recently spent some time with someone I love very much and with whom I have common ground of a shared history, shared love for a variety of things, but also, a tendency to butt heads.
This post is about what I learned from the situation.
1. I can be an 8 year old, with all of [...]

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Dating Habits of NE Teenagers

Let’s be clear – my daughter DOES have a boyfriend, but they aren’t dating, merely “going out.”
It’s significant enough that she has altered her FB status, but not serious enough that there is any expectation of the relationship being long term.
That said, he did ask her to go to the semi formal 8th grade dance [...]

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Ten Things Tues, er Wednesday 2

Whole chucks of time have disappeared lately and I’m busy enough that not only have I not been visiting other blogs much, I haven’t had time to write. I am hopeful that things will shift soon so I can be more of a presence here and your sites.
1.My niece’s Bat Mitzvah was wonderful.  Decked out [...]

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Illusions of safety and security

You don’t have to be one of those people who have CNN on all the time to be aware of last Monday’s tragic crash of an Air France jet en route to Paris from Rio.  As high-profile disaster stories  go this one has been subject to the same media indulgences of photos and stories of [...]

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OINK

So, I don’t know definitively or anything, but according to my ND friend out in WA state who works for the public health department, the symptoms I was so enjoying last week may well have been the swine flu, or H1N1. All I know is that it was one of the weirdest flus I have [...]

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Ten Things Tuesd, er… Wednesday

Tuesday got away from me.  It seems to be Wednesday…
1. My sister’s daughter will become Bat Mitzvah this coming weekend, which means my sister is mere days away from hosting a potentially insane gathering. She’s holding up fairly well (she’s got the twitching under control, but I’m a little concerned about the maniacal giggling), but [...]

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