Category: Everyday Stories
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Yoga Mat Across America
H.o.p. and the Very Large Array, 2008 You’ve no idea how much fun it was to introduce H.o.p. to the Very Large Array. And me too. I’ve wanted to visit it for years. Looking at the map, however, I’d thought it would be miles off course and that we’d miss it. Instead, it was right…
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Vacationers entering apartment at end of two week road trip immediately sense they had forgotten to take out the milk cartons for recycling
We began the day in Texas and ended in Atlanta. Reorienting after getting the car unpacked, “What’s that smell?” I wondered aloud. The source was hanging above the emptied garbage can in the kitchen. A sack of milk cartons we’d saved for recycling but had forgotten to take out before leaving. We combatted with burning…
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Neophyte yoga practitioner unable to simply pick up legos anymore without her body forcing her to rethink alignment
See, I’m being nice and polite and not writing about it constantly, but I’m 21 days into the yoga now and it’s interesting. Others in better shape would be soaring along but I’ve got years of bad desk habits that the yoga is first dealing with. At this point, Marty says I look secure, like…
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And the band played on
Was talking with a sister last week about her eldest daughter’s engagement to an Australian and she brought up the song “Waltzing Matilda”, how she was unfamiliar with it and he’d introduced her to the song during his Christmas stay with the family. My mind went immediately to “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” done…
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Ten Year Old Child Begs for Bergman’s "Seventh Seal" (Don’t They All)
I’m not big on Bergman. Yes, I’ve got “Bergman on Bergman” on the shelf but that’s from my late teens and early twenties. However H.o.p. came across Bergman’s Seventh Seal I don’t know but a couple weeks ago he brought it up. “What’s The Seventh Seal?” he asked. Yes, I watch great movies with H.o.p.…
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This beginner at yoga so far likes Elsie's podcasts the best
So, I’m on my 16th day of yoga and for the past 11 days I’ve been using Elsie Escobar’s yoga podcasts. When I first came upon Elsie’s website I wasn’t sure what to think and actually, the first time, passed it by without downloading anything. She seemed too personable and I didn’t quite trust that.…
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Tornado watch in wake of EF2 Tornado motivates child to secure toys
So we got slammed by an EF2 tornado just a mile or so from here last night. The first ever tornado to hit downtown Atlanta. No damage to our neighborhood but this map shows just how much of the downtown area, into Cabbagetown, was hit. As it turns out there was no tornado warning issued…
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We're fine (if anyone is worried about the tornado that hit)
A tornado hit downtown but we’re about a mile and a half distant from where most of the damage was concentrated. Our power went out for a bit but we didn’t have the television on and had no idea there was a tornado warning, we were only aware there was a storm. We didn’t know…
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Parent ponders how best to deal with child who asks what alchemy is
Earlier in the day Marty had come in with the ZBS (Zero Bull Shit) catalogue and plopped it down in front of me and said, “The Fourth Tower of Inverness!” We’ve been planning a car trip, to be taken fairly soon, and the Fourth Tower of Inverness (we had some cassettes of it back in…
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Child disappointed by attractive variety pack of cereals
When I was a kid I would look at those variety packs of cereals on the grocer’s shelf and think, “Wow!” They were so attractive. And the idea of slitting open one side of a package of cereal and pouring in your milk and eating it straight from the box sounded very exciting. They had…
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I’ve got two fly swatters. I’ll loan you one…
I’m not a Flybaby but I can tell who likely is because I’ve recently been reading her list with the same interest I had in Tammy Faye Bakker and her Fundie drones way back in the day. And there’s a lot of you Flybabies out there, open and closet, because when Flylady says, “Clean your…
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Well, one can't say the universe isn't into novelty
I read the Bad Astronomy Blog and watch Phil Plait’s films, and sometimes read parts of the posts to H.o.p., like today’s which was on the age of the universe and how it was formed and the birth of hydrogen. “That is so cool,” H.o.p. said. Hydrogen means something to us as we’ve purchased a…