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Bigger, smaller –"Alice in Wonderland" science
Ah, the travails and uncertainties of homeschooling. This chapter I’m naming “Alice in Wonderland” science. We’re listening to “Carmina Burana” this morning, an old favorite of H.o.p.’s, because it was used in a video at a website on the “4th Revolt”, which I came across via Pen Elayne. The idea over at the 4th Revolt…
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King Coal
Many years ago a guy showed up in our lives, a musician, had the art side of it all down cold, played in an Athens-Atlanta band but wasn’t really too much a part of the music scene, who hired my husband to engineer and produce some of his redos of Johnny Cash songs. He had…
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The Show Must Go On (not, but seems to be)
“Pinocchio, you’ve returned!” And here am I, the first decent morning I’ve had in a while, the whale’s mouth opening a crack. H.o.p. is running in to yell, “The garbage truck is here! The garbage truck is here!” Bang, boom, crash. He sits back down at the computer to draw some more of the marvelous…
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"Just like a movie"
We are back. H.o.p. did not want to go to the Memorial and we didn’t press–the hundreds at the service would have been too much for him. And the two hour receiving line afterward. So I stayed at the house with him and helped friends of the family prepare, as they arrived from the service,…
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Remnant of Christmas Eve
There’s been a hospital sheet lying on the sidewalk since the police left.
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Death and the Holidays
This morning, my husband’s mother called to say she had just discovered my husband’s father had died. He has been declining the past 7 years with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). With the exception of several hospitalizations from illnesses caused by complications with the ALS, he remained home throughout. Hospice people began visiting during the summer.…
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If you purport to want peace, love, understanding and equality then you ought to give some effort to living your mission statement behind closed doors
Our landlord today dropped off the nicest book for H.o.p. A Christmas gift which we know is a book because tonight H.o.p., aglow with enthusiasm and curiosity, asked if he could go ahead and open it and Marty put a bow on his head to put us in a Christmasy mood and we said yes.…
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The Grind
Let me put it this way. If my life was a parade that had been rained on, that would be one thing. Instead, I’m the guy with the stuffed toy monkey on his/her shoulder, playing the organ grinder in a shadow of the doorway on the corner. There’s not much point raining on the organ…
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Displaying a few musician genes
“That song is done with an accordion, isn’t it? And a piano. That’s really cool. I didn’t know that a piano could make it sound like something was about to happen in the darkness or in the big city. They had an accordion in the movie called Madeline. And that’s Russian music, isn’t it.” He…
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Torture and Human Rights Abuses – we gotta stop thinking of ourselves as the good guys gone bad because if the bad sleep well then America has had more than its fair share of many well-rested nights
Over at Nightbird’s Fountain the other day was made this post linking to the very pink Torture Tree. Someone remarked in the comments area since when did we represent torture and human rights abuses and we needed to stand for freedom again. As I noted in response in the comments area, I always feel like…
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Swallow, don't spit! And sentimental reminiscing on an exploding CD Rom
I bypassed the Dole salad bag as it was down in the double digits (way down) in popularity. A curious sort, I clicked the link at Amazon to get a look at the top 100 gourmet items being ordered this Christmas. Lo and behold the 99 spot is occupied by… a $7.45 box of cinnamon…
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Ok, how about this?
You see, I typed into a search in Gourmet Foods (at Amazon) the search term “European” just to see what might come up, rather than, y’know, buying everyone Xmas steaks (haha) or something like that. The truffles came up. Too expensive. Next page was this gourmet European item. 10 ounces of Dole European Salad in…