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Thanksgiving Break

Don’t get me wrong – I very much enjoy peace and quiet. But it always takes me a little while to get use to it after a few days like we’ve just had. It...

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Believe

I don’t want to believe that a police officer would shoot and kill an unarmed teenager. I don’t want to believe our justice system is capable of failing. I don’t want to believe a...

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Dusting Off Old Skills

Recently I was able to make use of skills I previously demonstrated at work. This past Friday, my mother-in-law was told by the rehab facility that they would be moving her out of her private...

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Coming Up For Air

Since my last post, I’ve gone down a rabbit hole of going through and organizing 590.7 GB of video on our hard drive. (Don’t worry, I won’t share any of that video here.) It has taken me...

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Knocked Down

Back during her Freshman year, a father of two of the players on Heather’s soccer team had put together a DVD of game highlights from the year.  He also included a section highlighting hard hits over the...

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Building My Audience

Nicole and I visited my mother-in-law who is in rehab following yet another knee surgery. She mentioned she wanted a new camera. So I bought her an iPad. (With her money. I’m not that...

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Claire and Phil

After my last post, some of you may be thinking, “Uh oh, there’s trouble in paradise.” But no one ever claimed this was paradise. Today is our 26th wedding anniversary. The marriage got off...

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Buttoned Up

The yard has pretty much been put to bed for the winter. Pool closed. Hostas cut down. Rhododendrons covered. About the only thing that hasn’t been done is the raking of the leaves.  I don’t...

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Roses

In addition to more closely monitoring finances and electrical consumption, I’ve had more time to pay attention to the small things around the house since I’ve been home from work. Smell the roses, so...