Category Archives: Just life

The Morning After —

Posted on December 27, 2008 by K

Okay. So on Christmas morning I learned something: going back to bed and pulling the covers over your head? Not a good plan. Oh, yes, it sounds good. Here—everything in your life has changed, nothing is working right or feeling … Continue reading →

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Choirs of Angels

Posted on December 23, 2008 by K

            It has been hard for me this year. Hard to feel the loving spirit. You know how sometimes you are surprised by joy? I’ve been more like wrapped in acoustical tile, somehow. At church, I … Continue reading →

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Good fellows

Posted on December 23, 2008 by K

December 22, 2008             I LOVE my neighborhood.  Love it, love it, love it!!!             I got myself stuck in a snowbank tonight.  It’s been snowing all day.  Even so, we each have sallied out to pick up a final … Continue reading →

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The Ancient Shindig

Posted on December 22, 2008 by K

I have told this story before.  And I’m sure, by the time I have run out of words, I will have told the same stories so many times, my children will be able to build a simulacrum out of the … Continue reading →

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Atten: Office of Humbug

Posted on December 17, 2008 by K

   Forget cognitive dissonance.  How about cognitive lock-up.  Like they say on the space shows, “I’m trying sir, but the computer’s all locked up.”  Or frozen?  Do they say frozen?  Or jammed.  Any of those.  That’s where I am: cognitive freeze.  What’s wrong with people in administrative offices?  If … Continue reading →

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A Little Thanks

Posted on November 29, 2008 by K

Some years ago, I opened my soul to a person I had thought of as a very good friend: “At the very first sense of chill in the evening air, the very first whisper of Autumn, do you find yourself … Continue reading →

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We Have a Go

Posted on November 28, 2008 by K

November 25, 2008 There comes a time in the life of every parent when you finally have to test your training under saddle. I am not talking about sending your kid on band tour, though that’s close to what I … Continue reading →

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Having Negotiated the Skies

Posted on November 20, 2008 by K

            I do not hold with trend these days of children going away.  Growing up, I am all for.  It’s just that moving out and moving off stuff that I am having a hard time with.  … Continue reading →

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The East, part 10: The Great Cupcake Project

Posted on November 18, 2008 by K

It started at the grocery store when we ran into a very attractive idea: icing in a can.  It even included tips – star, leaf, ribbon and writing.  The only way we were going to justify taking that can home … Continue reading →

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The East, part 9: The Little Family

Posted on November 18, 2008 by K

Family Life The Japanese Maple I showed you a couple of days ago is almost winter stripped. Just inside the school yard. The milk box.  I’m so fond of it.   The teacher. Unlike Frazz’ last teacher – the Russian … Continue reading →

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