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Your husband can't share your childhood. Your children can't share your childhood. Especially when your parents are gone, your siblings and old friends are your only links to where you came from...
Read MoreA very wealthy woman from my hometown committed suicide this week. It stopped me in my tracks...
Read MoreWhen Duncan and I were dating in law school, I told him about my family plans. To my surprise, he didn't run away. And, as far as I could tell, his feet weren't tied up. He could, of course, simply have been stunned. Kind of like a deer in the headlights...
Read MoreI first started baking just to piss off my mom, because the kitchen got really dirty. I always cleaned up, but at times our avocado-green hand mixer went berserk, and golden droplets of cake batter would spray across the kitchen walls...
Read MoreThe call came at 8:30 PM last Saturday night. "Mom, there's been an explosion a few buildings away. People are saying it's an IED." My heart chilled...
Read MoreThis time of year, I find myself thinking about all the parents who are about to become empty-nesters. The poor souls dropping their children off at college, and driving away in an empty car. To a quiet house. With the family dog that, sadly, might be just barely holding on...
Read MoreSisters do the extraordinary. They have your back, and your heart. Always...
Read MoreThe sun was hot; incredibly hot. As we placed the urn in the damp dirt of the small university town where he had taught physics for 40+ years, I remembered a man of impeccable integrity, subtle humor, and sheer goodness. Then I held hands with Duncan and his family, and we sang, humbly, with only a few birds and the gentle wind as accompaniment...
Read MoreI asked myself, "Is this for real?" Remember, we were in the middle of Baltic nowhere, standing on a remote outcropping of glacial ice and frozen tundra somewhere between Norway and the North Pole. I couldn't imagine that any other human life form had actually found its way onto this alien atoll...
Read MoreWhenever Duncan and I have a "big" anniversary (i.e., one that that ends in a 0 or 5), I put on my wedding dress, and parade down my street. Initially, my neighbors thought it was cute. Now they just think I'm strange. I think I scare small children...
Read MoreI have shingles, and it is no fun. First, shingles is supposed to happen to old people. So, now I feel old. Second, it's painful. Enough said about that. Anyone who's had chickenpox can get shingles. It's a cruel do-over...
Read MoreA lifestyle blog created to stir awareness of living life to its fullest, every day, even (especially!) in the small and ordinary things in life. For me, it's finding and appreciating the extraordinary in the ordinary that makes life wonderful. Embracing life as a joyride.
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