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Communal Clutter Cutting

Hey All! I need your help.  This is an interactive post.  Please share your tips for cutting clutter at home. 1) How do you deal with the 8096 tons of mail/paper? 2) What do you do when your (packrat) child … Continue reading

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The Limits on Freedom of Speech

I figured dinnertime was a good time.  We all sat in the kitchen with our bowls of leftover chili.  “I’ve been thinking a lot about Freedom of Speech,” I said. What followed was a very brief discussion, mostly between the … Continue reading

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The Elephant in the Room

I have a confession.  Some of you know that I play percussion at my alma mater, South High School, in the South High Community Band.  What you may not realize is that I am the, ahem, President, of the South … Continue reading

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Curiosity

Curiosity didn’t kill the cat.  Curiosity sensitized her whiskers, perked up her ears to sounds she’d never heard before.  Old tunes rang new as curiosity fine-tuned the hertz for a different perspective. Curiosity led the cat into unexpected friendships, spontaneous … Continue reading

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NaNoWriMo Merriment

As many of you know, November is National Novel Writing Month.  This is the month that friends and coworkers look particularly underslept as they toil into the wee hours, mining their experience for perfect words, fifty thousand perfect words! Chuck … Continue reading

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This Bird Has Flown

I spent the weekend at NerdCon Stories.  Met a young woman named Silje.  No, it’s not Sill-gee.  When she says it, it rolls off her tongue like caramel and sounds a bit like Celia. What nationality is your name? I … Continue reading

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This is the Moment

No yesterday. No tomorrow. Only NOW. Is your NOW consistent with your YOU? Musical Moment  

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Korean Angelica – my official FAVORITE PLANT

I obtained my first Korean Angelica (Angelica gigas) plants from the Friends School Plant Sale (neonicotinoid free) several years ago.  I didn’t know quite what to expect.  That first year, the plants were somewhat dull.  They just sat there and … Continue reading

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The News

I hang up the phone.  Aunt Loretta is dead.  The Queen of Ice Hockey now sits on her celestial throne, with empty chairs to her left and right awaiting Jayna Hefford and Wayne Gretzky.  From thence she shall come to … Continue reading

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From the Lemonade Stand: 3:00 am Multidisciplinary Word Problems

(Disclaimer: don’t read this if you have a touchy tummy…) At three am, a ten-year-old boy awakens from sleep with a sense of deep unrest in his abdomen.  He staggers out of bed, racing for the bathroom, and makes it … Continue reading

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