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Last night, my ten-year-old daughter slept in the bedroom with my husband and me. She was freaked out. I didn’t know I was until I woke up in the middle of the night, and the previous five days’ events whipped around my brain. When 09/11 occurred, I lived Read More...
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“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.” - Oliver Goldsmith My childhood was filled with negative dog experiences. My maternal grandfather Read More...
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Going through the archives was scary business. Back in 2009, I mostly wrote about subbing. *shudder* I originally posted this on 12/01/09. It had 6 comments. (It’s actually a comment thread between Alesa Warcan and me a year later.) Poor me, writing those Read More...
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“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.” - Margaret Mead I live Read More...
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“Mothers are all slightly insane.” - J.D. Salinger For most of my childhood, I knew something was off with my mother. Her behavior would embarrass me. When I turned 13, something clicked and I understood that there was a problem beyond embarrassment. Read More...
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My daughter is second from the left. Her 2nd sparring partner is 2nd from the right. “If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.” - Dean Smith My eight-year-old daughter participated Read More...
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“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” - Buddha (This is Read More...
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“I’m just a horrible dancer. Terrible. In fact, I’m so gad I even have a rule against it. No dancing unless I’m alone in my room or it’s pitch-black dark.” - Catherine in Rules by Cynthia Lord. I don’t know how to dance. Really. When I was in kindergarten, Read More...
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“Unforgettable, That's what you are. Unforgettable, Though near or far. Like a song of love that clings to me,” - Nat King Cole “Unforgettable” This past weekend, I attended my cousin’s wedding. It was his second time marrying. The first occurred three Read More...
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“Slip slidin’ away, Slip slidin’ away You know the nearer your destination The more you slip slidin’ away” - Simon, Paul. “Slip Slidin’ Away” Simon and Garfunkel For years my father has run something called “Wednesday Walkers”. Someone used to be in charge Read More...
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. - Anatole France This afternoon, my children and I are leaving to visit Maine for a Read More...
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View of Boston on July 4th “You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Read More...
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