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Aug.25.2009
Wow, time indeed does fly when you are having fun. I have now been writing my humor column for ten years. That's more than 200 columns or some 140,000 words! True, a lot of those words were "er… ahh… um… hmmm… and oops..." but I'm sure there were some more excepshunal, er, xseptional, er...
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Aug.19.2009
I went to the card store on Monday to buy a card that I knew I would not find. Still, I dutifully walked down the aisle to the Wedding Anniversary section and allowed my eyes to stray over the shelf that celebrates twenty five years of marriage. There were a lots of cards on offer, full of...
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May.31.2009
May has been such busy month that we spent what time we could at Blackberry Corner, our almost 100-year-old house. It's our own private B & B.
We celebrated being married 20 years on May 20 with a large leisurely holiday breakfast, white wedding cake with lime icing and pink roses, and a hike...
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May.25.2009
On May 25, 1979 Etan Patz got to walk to school all by himself. However, he never got to school and was declared dead in 2001. He would've been 36 today.
The Missing Boy(for Etan Patz)
Every time we take the busmy son sees the picture of the missing boy.He looks at it like a mirror - the darkblond...
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Mar.12.2009
We live long enough, and we all learn to live with higher levels of pain. It is eight oclock on a Sunday morning. I am happier than I have ever been in college. I love plants. I love row crop nematodes. I love bees. Comes a knock on my dorm room door. The Zobels are there, they have been crying....
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Feb.11.2009
Not every crime writer has personal experience of murder in their family but on the fiftieth anniversary of my great aunt’s brutal killing, I take time to remember Martha Giles’s unlawful killing on 12 February 1959, and one mystery that it appears I will never be able to solve.
Over the last...
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Oct.14.2008
In the 1980s, McKinsey & Co forecast a world maket of 900,000 phones by the year 2000. Today, 900,000 handsets are sold every three days. Image Credit: The Next WebEnterprise Mobility Born Twenty-Five Years Ago
It's hard to imagine but yesterday, Oct. 13, 2008 marked the 25th anniversary of the...
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Jul.03.2008
AUTHORS REJOICE IN ADULATION
All Kafka News - Prague
Today marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Franz Kafka. Authors worldwide can not be dissuaded from their belief that this was the Second Coming awaited since the days of Cervantes and Shakespeare. In hushed and reverential tones, odes of...
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Jun.19.2008
Okay, lovers. Here are a few more questions from What I Love About You, a guided journal that helps you spell out what exactly you love about your special person -
I get a kick out of watching you:
I respect how you overcame:
I was proud to know you when:
(from What I Love About You, Kate Marshall...
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Jun.16.2008
From AmazonConnect blog on June 15, 2008:
After a supper of bratwursts, which our son-in-law Brian cooked on the grill he brought over from their camper up at Wayside Farm, along with the two new family movie rentals he brought at the kids’ requests, four of the grandkids who happened to be here...
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