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[Editor’s note: I wrote this piece on simple life April 11 but it has taken me a while to polish and post it – is this particularly ironic or simply a confirming sign of the complications of life…?!] Yesterday [April 10] I read Jeff Sandquist’s link to Om Malik’s piece on Internet Anxiety Disorder. Then […]

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For six weeks this spring, the girls and I took a sign language course and it changed us more than I had imagined. I had been trying to teach my daughters a few signs, using a book, so I was eager to enroll them in a class taught by someone fluent in ASL. Abigail and […]

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It’s not every morning that you have to tell your children that their pet has died. I am grateful. Our tiny tree frog tadpole liked to hide between the rocks at the bottom of the aquarium. It didn’t swim around often. For fear that it would die without us noticing, I would check twice a […]

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Thanks everyone for your care. I’m still catching up, getting over a cold, and hoping to return to writing soon. In the meantime I thought I’d post one of my favorite photos from the garden. Last fall I planted bulbs for orange tulips and I have enjoyed these new blooms, vibrant vermilion in the spring […]

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Recently I heard someone speak on the topic of disruption and I realized what a negative connotation the word often has for me. For example whenever my Internet service or newspaper subscription is disrupted, I complain. I like to pretend life is predictable and reliable. In our nonstop culture that emphasizes efficiency, disruptions can be […]

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