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Ponderings and Anticipations
Yesterday, we celebrated my future daughter-in-law, Kelley, with a bridal shower here at the house. It was a mix of her family and ours, her friends and ours. It was fun getting to know her people. I liked them all, and it’s a good sign when that happens. It’s like that scene in the movie…
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An Atlas and the Hippocampus
GPS is killing my brain. I heard that on the news the other day. Some newscaster reported that the more we rely on our phones to get us from one spot to another via GPS, the more our hippocampus dies. Not good news for the world or our brains. This is not good news for…
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The Weather Report
When my dad used to write, he would always include a little weather report. He would write things like , “It’s muggy here on the farm today.” He would also mention any precipitation that was occurring or forecasted. Then, he would comment on the most recent flowers to bloom or crops from the garden that…
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January Jots from 2022 MLK Day. (An old Post from my old Blog.)
Indianapolis seems to be missing out on the biggest snow of the season. Warnings are all up and down the Appalachian Trail which, if you didn’t know, is 2200 miles long. That’s a lot of snow and a super big warning. I know this because my husband has become a slack packer, a person who…
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The Inflated Chicken
When I was a kid, I sometimes didn’t like the way my mother did things. She pinched pennies at every turn, saved every dime she could, and I was at times, embarrassed by her frugality. The other day, I went to Costco. Like my mom always did and in order to avoid the impulse buys,…
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