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Sep.06.2012
September 6
FUNK AND WAGNALL’S BACK PORCH
Bottoms come sealed in envelopes from unknown accountants. Amazing how many nominees and how few winners! The audience, filled with past recipients, holds its collective breath and prays for this year's finalists,...
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Jul.06.2012
I passed my birthday with a celebratory beer. I allow myself one beer on my birthday each year. Other days I have as many beers as supply, sense, situation and cash on hand authorize.
June has ended, another month in the books. Since we've passed the year's halfway mark, 2012 also counts as a...
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Dec.03.2011
(1958 photo of James Baldwin by Motike Weissman)
Earlier this year, August 2, numerous individuals and institutions acknowledged the eighty-seventh anniversary of the birth of American author James Baldwin, and on December 1 observers noted the twenty-fourth anniversary of his death at the age of...
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Aug.24.2011
In addition to being here, I'm over at Carolyn Schriber's blog, doing a recap of what's happened since I was her guest a year ago.
Now - Happy Anniversary to the Hubster (and me). This is year number 42 for us. And yes, faithful followers of this blog have seen the picture before. I'm in a rut--...
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Jul.29.2011
This week is a week of beginnings, middles, and endings in our family. My niece had her baby on the twenty-fifth. Her parents' anniversary, their thirtieth, was also the twenty-fifth. So the birth of Pierson BRADY was a welcome present. (Brady is my maiden name and thus, it is my belief that it...
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Jun.04.2011
Do you remember when you first fell in love? Or the day you first glimpsed something you knew would change your life forever?
That happened to me two decades ago today. June 5, 1991. My 22nd birthday. Two weeks out of college, I awoke in New York City with a hangover, stumbled to JFK with a...
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May.18.2010
The season, the venue, the caterer, the relatives, these are the factors that usually influence the choice of a wedding date. Not in our case, we chose the day because of what is inside this swanky box - a gâteau St Honoré. Read more
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Sep.12.2009
My husband Kenneth and I recently celebrated our sixteenth anniversary. We flew to Seattle and spent four days exploring the city and doing what we do so well: eating great food.
Kenneth started cooking when he was four years old, following his grandmother around the kitchen. He never uses the...
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Jun.18.2009
After learning at church on Sunday that the women's class meeting was to be at Charlene Morris's the next night, I knew I had a conflict. My job as song leader meant I was supposed to show up with the bag of song books from the choir room and have songs selected to sing. I have been known to...
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