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The 4th: part tres

When I was a kid, I fell in love with Polyanna.  The movie, I mean, not the character.  I loved the prisms.  And I loved most of all the 4th of July bazaar—the games and the flags and the corn on … Continue reading

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The 4th: part dos

Parade day is always good exercise.  If you don’t get up at five to stake your claim (which we don’t), you do a whole lot of walking (which we do).  Sometimes through parts of town you’ve never seen before.  I … Continue reading

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The 4th: part uno

  A little (HA) photo essay about the things I loved this 4th— Part One The Hometown Parade: we make it a science Every year as the kids grew up, we made our way to Ginger’s house, a lovely pioneer … Continue reading

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More scrap 2(?)

I hate it when I got a lot to write about and no time or opportunity to do the mind-data dump. It makes me jumpy, keeping all these things in the air. So I think I’m going to do bullets, … Continue reading

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That thing I do –

I’m always intending to amaze and delight by explaining the structure (sorry, choked on that one) of my day.  Really, it’s fascinating.  No.  It is.  So today, as I was slogging away at my Life’s Work, I pulled out a … Continue reading

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Hot to trot

If a horse is going to blow up on you, there’s a good chance it’s going to happen in the rough seam between a trot and the canter. Which makes sense: if you’ve got a kid doing the dishes, and … Continue reading

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Facing the elephant

There’s all this stuff I want to write about. Even if nobody ever read this, I’d want to remember it, talk about it. But life is like this moving sidewalk on steroids, and things whip past before you have a … Continue reading

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More Scrap

  More little scraps. To begin with: the company I keep. This is me, kind of dorky, always communicating (cry for those who live with me), a little dumpy, but well meaning and not terribly exciting.   This is my … Continue reading

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Scrap Quilting

Not really. Scrap life-ing. Bits and pieces out of my image library. Not showing off my technique, just cool little moments. Grandson Young moms doing lunch in the park.  They let me stay. Old dog.  Losing his hearing.  But never … Continue reading

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~in just spring

There was a time in my life when I believed in magic. (If you read this out loud, you must say the word – say “magic”—very softly, as though you are breathing it, and feeling the touch softly on your … Continue reading

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