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Old Photos
What activities do you lose yourself in? Why do people sigh when they say, “I really need to go through my photos?” Because there are so many. Two recent incidents have sent me weeding through old photos. I’m talking about hard copy photos. The digital cloud is an entirely different problem. The boxes, drawers, and Continue reading
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Hedge of Thorns
When I was a little kid, I used to wonder about the magical hedge of thorns that protected Sleeping Beauty for a hundred years. Now that I am a grownup, it doesn’t seem so magical. In fact, I wonder how, after an entire century, the thorny hedge hadn’t taken over the entire castle and Sleeping Continue reading
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Your Package Has Been Delivered
When FedEx started including photos of delivered packages with notification of delivery, I think we all had high hopes that photos upon delivery would become standard and that delivery woes would be a thing of the past. (Forgive my optimism.) Not living in the city or even suburbs, theft of my packages is not an Continue reading
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To Do or Not To Do
Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done. Something on my to-do list that never gets done…that is a tough one to answer. Which to-do list should I consider? There are so many. There’s the daily list of things that I need to do to feel like I’ve earned the air I sucked up Continue reading
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The Thrill, the Agony—Mostly Agony
What are your favorite sports to watch and play? Competitive sport stresses me out. The Ravens, in particular, stress me out. When the Ravens play well and take a commanding lead in a game, I enjoy watching them. I appreciate well-executed plays, although it requires all my concentration to follow the ball, even on a Continue reading
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Clutter
Where can you reduce clutter in your life? My daughter just moved into a new house. Empty kitchen drawers await spoons and spatulas and plastic wrap. There is no junk in any junk drawer. Her bedroom closet has an organizer system so massively amazing that even the painter stopped to gape at it. It seems Continue reading
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Baby Blanket
Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it? My baby blanket was hands-down the thing I was most attached to as a child. I can still feel the smooth satin binding against my cheek and the soft nubbiness of the blanket itself. It was a buttery off-white and Continue reading
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Lost in Space
What is your mission? What is my mission? These days my mission is figuring out what my mission is. Without the minute by minute structure of a teaching day, I am adrift with the unending possibilities before me. Kind of like an astronaut floating untethered in the vastness of space. The temptation is to create Continue reading
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Gifted
What is the greatest gift someone could give you? If someone wanted to gift me the best gift ever, a million dollars would be great. Make that two. A million doesn’t go as far as it used to and I have a lot of projects in mind. A lifetime of first class air travel would Continue reading
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See-ums and No-see-ums
What you don’t see will bite you. What you do see bites you in a different way. I wore white slacks and a three-quarter sleeve blouse to a bridal shower. I wanted to hide my polka-dotted age spots on my legs and the bug bites that appear after every ever-so-brief foray outside. Yes, I have Continue reading
Slightly Off the Grid 