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Three Years!!!
Three years and a couple of days ago, someone joined our family. He may be welcome to stay now. I mean, the jury’s out, but I’d say that things are leaning in his favor.
One Memory of Each Grandmother
I never knew my grandfathers. Both had passed away long before I arrived on the scene. My grandmothers, though? Both lived into my teens, when–quite sadly–both passed away within about six months of each other. Grammy, my father’s mother, went … Continue reading
Box of Dreams
Last week while my sister was visiting from out of town she and I went antiquing. I enjoy antiquing, but she absolutely loves it, and she did some research and found a huge antiques mall located in Canandaigua, NY, which … Continue reading
On choosing happiness
A lot of people I know–most people I know, likely—struggle with happiness. They struggle with keeping it once it’s found, and they struggle with finding it in the first place. Some struggle more mightily than that: some have to fight … Continue reading
Eighteen years and counting….
In the space of the last week, The Daughter has turned eighteen and graduated from high school. I’m proud and amazed, and more than a little astonished that so much time could have elapsed so quickly. So what’s next? Who … Continue reading
Twenty Years
When we took our vows, twenty years ago today, she didn’t like coffee and I didn’t want a dog. Go figure. Happy anniversary, my love!
Dogs and cats, living together — MASS HYSTERIA!!!
Generally, Cane gets along pretty well with our two cats, Lester and Julio. Julio will actually walk up to Cane and head-butt him, where Lester’s relationship with Cane has a little “sibling rivalry” thing going on. Well, here’s what happened … Continue reading
There’s something NEW here, I know it!!!
The dee-oh-gee walks the same neighborhood every day, usually three times. He passes the same shrubs and the same trees and the same lampposts. And he stops each and every time to smell them. Like this rock. More often than … Continue reading
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I’m sorry, could you talk into my right ear instead?
So, I’m nursing an ear infection this week. That’s fun. As ear infections go, it’s not one of the worse ones I’ve had in my life. There wasn’t much of a preceding ear ache at all, but the inflammation and … Continue reading
2016 in review (or, “Whew, at least THAT’s over.”)
2016. This was a terrible, terrible year. Maybe not for me personally, but there really was a sense this year – for me, at least – that a long era of potential optimism, which managed to keep flickering even through … Continue reading