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Running a late-night Taxi service and other lessons

May 2nd, 2004 · Comments Off on Running a late-night Taxi service and other lessons

John Porcaro honored his parents with a lengthy post celebrating their 50th anniversary. It’s an excellent synopsis of what he learned from his mom and dad. Here are some title highlights: There’s No Such Thing as Getting Rich Quick Sometimes a Car is Just a Car Most of Life’s Great Lessons Occurred Around the Dinner […]

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Hippo hippo joy joy

April 29th, 2004 · 1 Comment

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How we relate

April 29th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Last night when the power was out, after the girls went to sleep, I asked Ted: “What are we going to do here in the dark all night…?” Ah, then I realized I could read the booklet about Ralph Waldo Emerson and his children that had been waiting in my reading pile. So I grabbed […]

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Pest or pet?

April 29th, 2004 · 2 Comments

This spring, again, it seems we have a bumper crop of tent caterpillars. Abigiail’s glad since she thinks of them as her pets. As documented in this picture, she likes to let them crawl up her arms. When I told her that we needed to go in the van and that she had to put […]

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Things that go bumpy in the night

April 27th, 2004 · 2 Comments

The good news this morning is that it looks like the girls will acquire their immunity to varicella naturally… careful what you wish for, they say – sometimes you might just get it!…and I’m glad I’m not pregnant and the kids are not babies…but the day before the grandparents arrive for their first visit in […]

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