Movie-Watching and Procrastination

I’ve been promising myself for weeks and/or months that I’d catch up on listing movies we/ve seen — failing to do so seems occasionally to result in renting a movie a second time, only realizing…

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Six Birds and a Sweater

Pater asked me the other day if I thought I was enjoying life as much as I could or should. He’d been asking himself that same question, wondering whether he was appreciating the passing moments…

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The Guys Rule, For Now . . .

Growing up, we were nine girls (including my two foster sisters, who spent most of their childhood and adolescence with us) to three boys. The ratio of 3 to 1 changed first with my brother’s…

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Hangin’ Out in the Sunshine

After last week’s emotional events, this past weekend was a time for relaxing and taking stock of our good fortune. Back on the island, the heat was more tolerable, enjoyable even. We ran before it…

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Beach Log

Can you tell by the rings that the log above is a fair-sized chunk of tree? And can you see that it’s nestled inside another log which, if relativity means anything, was once an absolutely…

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