Yesterday was a good day. I felt as if a load had lifted from me. Perhaps it was because I got some exercise in the morning for the first time in a week. Maybe it was the sunshine and warmer weather, the precious blue of the sky. Or maybe it was the walk the girls […]
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Yesterday
December 9th, 2003 · Comments Off on Yesterday
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Giving my shower a pedicure
December 7th, 2003 · Comments Off on Giving my shower a pedicure
Well, not really, but I bet the relative who gave me a pedicure set when I was ten, never imagined I would be using it to fix my shower twenty years later. I remember opening the package one Christmas to find a lovely leather case with zipper, inside filled with nail files, two kinds of […]
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Making Music
December 6th, 2003 · 1 Comment
Lots of media about music – maybe to do with Grammy nominee week?! – anyway, here’s my list of what’s caught my eye and ear… Ted brought home from his trip today’s USA Today with the cover story Downloading squeezes the art out of the album I found it fun to read various musician’s opinions, […]
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Amoxicillin to the rescue
December 5th, 2003 · 1 Comment
I am not a fan of antibiotics, not a mom who goes running to her pediatrician at the first sign of sniffles, begging for a prescription for Baby. Yet this week, at her 15-month appointment, Elisabeth was diagnosed with a double earache. She had gotten ill a couple weeks ago with a cold, and had […]
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Born Rich
December 5th, 2003 · Comments Off on Born Rich
Anita Rowlands posted yesterday links to two perspectives about the HBO documentary Born Rich . I liked especially reading about Synthetic Zero’s samurai heritage : My father said, when we were watching that part of the film, that mixing power and wealth was dangerous — that’s why the samurai escaped that fate to some extent, […]
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