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Feb.06.2010
We are all invited to a friend's house for pizza tonight. We should have been there thirty minutes ago but middle son's bus is late coming from Dublin and he tells me on the phone that he is filthy after his Rugby game and that he sprained his wrist. He adds that he is starving to death. I assure...
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Dec.04.2009
When I think of the word kismet it brings to mind destiny – something that is completely out of my control and something that is bigger than me. I am not saying that I don’t have a modicum of control over my own destiny – I do. But I am a true believer in everything happens for a reason and there...
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Aug.06.2009
I was just down in the kitchen talking to my son about making plans for his upcoming school year. The matter of points is crucial for him now and his future college life will ultimately boil down to how many (points) he gets in his final exams. He is aiming at A's in most subjects and so we both...
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Jul.21.2009
At some stage I’m thinking of writing a novel (perhaps with the title “God’s Computer” or similar) based on the role played by “chance” in life. Each life, it seems to me, depends on so many events over which we have no control that it would need a huge computer to sort them out. How one’s parents...
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Mar.07.2009
There is only one old friend that I really want to find out about. His name is Loren McCune.I went to highschool with him.
Everyone else that I've been wondering about, missing even, has sent me a message in the last few weeks. It had been twenty three years since I'd heard from one person who...
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Nov.17.2008
A few weeks ago, my wireless connection stopped working. The router was "unavailable," or so the little red hat said in the tool bar on the lower edge of the screen. The little hat is green when the router is available. My husband Kenneth and I discussed it all at great length, he...
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Oct.29.2008
"I don't believe in coincidences. I believe in the curlicued whimsy of fate," says Sam Tyler, the character actor Jason O'Mara plays on my favorite new television show Life on Mars. He's accepting the philosophy of a ditzy post-hippie who's adopted him when he lands in 1973 after a car...
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Jul.22.2008
In 2001/02 the movie, WIDOWMAKER K-19, was made, much of it filmed in Halifax harbour and out on the nearby ocean. It deals with submarines and an in-ship disaster, staring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson.
I was not aware of this when I visited Halifax. I went down to the waterfront and went along...
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Jun.28.2008
A couple of months back there was a Pickles cartoon where Earl finally gets a new chair. He decides to put his old chair on the road so someone can get it and put a FREE sign on it. He and his wife Opal move the couch and he says "Good-bye, old friend." The next panel shows not only the...
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Jun.18.2008
Please visit my latest blog:
http://sandracarrington-smith.blogspot.com/2008/06/angels-or-demons.html
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