I remember when Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz was on the Wheaties box with all his gold medals...he was the consummate champion and he was on the Wheaties box with his beautiful face and body - yeah, with all his medals as well (as if that was the focal point). Of course, Spitz being on Wheaties [...]
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You still need your mother…
This day marks the tenth Mother's Day that I have been without my mother. I no longer go to the Mother's Day card aisle looking for the perfect card. Mostly I just sigh as I pass the aisle and think about how that part of my life is gone now. It is good that there [...]
Romper room
I feel a moral obligation to alert the community about spurious fashion trends that are being revisited. In the past that has resulted in a blog or two on mom jeans, leggings and the most aggregious fashion crime of all time -stirrup leggings. Of course I report about these items as a past offender. I [...]
Voucher
Today I went to the post office with my son Noah. He needed me to vouch for his identity so that he could get his passport. He lost his old passport in the Galleria fire in October. On the form I had to indicate what my relationship was to Noah. I asked the nice woman [...]
End of semester melancholy…
Well, today was the last day of my regular classes for the semester. I get so tired by the end of the semester it feels like I am sliding into home base on a prayer. Yet, I always feel a bit melancholy when the last regular class sessions arrive each semester. I am fortunate in [...]
Earlybird specials…
Sometimes two girls' trash can be other folks' treasure...especially in North Dakota during clean-up week. I was working at home today on my computer (on my little corner of the kitchen table) and I watched one vehicle after another go boulevard shopping. I was shocked at how many folks were out making the shopping rounds [...]
In retrospect…
My Great Aunt Sara lived in Los Angeles and I would go visit every once in awhile for a couple of days or a week at a time when I was a kid. We didn't live all that far away from Los Angeles maybe 30 minutes on a good traffic day, but it might as [...]
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