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Llama Llama Raparama

In the spirit of the season, I’m going to share the love.  With you. Anna Dewdney was an American author/illustrator.  She wrote the first Llama Llama book (Llama Llama Red Pajama) in 2005.  Her Llama books address a wide range … Continue reading

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Timber Target

I don’t like football.  I don’t get football.  At several points in my life, various males have attempted to explain the “down” system in a way that made any sense whatsoever.  They failed.  To me, football is the American equivalent … Continue reading

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Church Camp

We meet in the church parking lot and stuff our ratty sleeping bags into the back of a rickety school bus.  No one checks our bags.  The bus zips out highway 55, making a brief stop in Plymouth to pick … Continue reading

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Just Another Mucous Monday

The following is the product of a codeine-addled brain.  Consider yourself warned.   The first feature, to the tune of “I’m Still Standing,” by Elton John:   Don’t you know that I’m still coughing, harder than I ever did Lookin’ … Continue reading

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Hello From the Other Side – Lessons from Grammy Adele

I didn’t watch the Grammys.  I never watch the Grammys.  I vaguely remember doing laundry last night or dishes or something equally scintillating instead of watching the Grammys. The internet was all abuzz this morning with rumors of Adele making … Continue reading

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Prince Day

Way back in April, when Prince was still alive – oh wow – Prince is dead.  Remember when Prince’s plane made an emergency landing in Moline, Illinois, and a male formerly-known-as-responsive was rushed to the hospital?  The He subsequently-identified-as-Prince revived, … Continue reading

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Blessed Be the Tie That Binds

My maternal grandmother died in a car accident, when her brakes went out on a winding mountain road in California.  Margarette Fairbank Dyson Milanese was a tiny woman, barely five feet tall, with a wavy pin-curl bob and starched white … Continue reading

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MLKhaos

The annual MLK performance at my son’s school is the major all-school event of the year.    The entire student body participates, even the kids who claim to hate singing.  (How can anyone hate singing?) The music teacher, let’s call … Continue reading

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“Renegade” – My Gateway Drug

The plaintive words transport me in time: “Oh Mama, I’m in fear for my life from the long arm of the law.”*  Apple Valley, Minnesota.  1970s. Nancy was one of my best friends from birth until she moved.  Her family … Continue reading

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America, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Sociopaths

Target shelves Frank Sinatra next to Britney Spears.  Ol’ Blue Eyes getting a posthumous eyeful.  I found myself in the “pop music” section a couple weeks back, ostensibly to research a Rihanna tune. The middle school choir at the Big … Continue reading

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