gifts | gifts
Mar.07.2013
I don't usually mention other Red Room authors in my blogs, though I do regularly comment on their pre-existing posts. However, after careful consideration, I need to give an honorable mention to Stephen Evans and Farzana Versey for their gifts of upsetting one's equilibrium with two very...
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Jan.28.2013
When my daughter was nine or ten, while her father and I were in the midst of a divorce, she gave me a small blank book as a Mother's Day gift.
"Mom, I want you to write in this every day," she said, solemnly.
I found it the other day, and opened it. There was a jagged edge of paper...
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Jan.25.2013
January 25
Responding to Response
Thankfully I’m not in charge of what is so freely given in this program. I want it to be available, but I want gratitude to be the universal response. At first I thought I couldn’t understand how anyone could hold...
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Jan.11.2013
When I was a little girl, no one locked their bicycles. We rode, either in packs, or alone, to the school playground or a friend's house, where we'd leave them lying in the grass or propped against the side of a building.
On summer days I often rode downtown, ...
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Jan.06.2013
Traditionally, it is La Befana – and not Father Christmas – who brings gifts to the children of Central Italy. It is on the morning of the Epiphany, that children would wake up to find packages under their beds. If they had been good children for the preceding twelve months, of...
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Jan.05.2013
Of all the comments I got on the gifts I gave for Christmas, the most memorable has to be the one from my brother-in-law. I picked out The Half-Life of Gregor Samsa for him. Well, actually I intended it for my mom, who loves Metamorphosis, but on reading the blurb I decided it was more suitable for...
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Dec.20.2012
Jill Jepson's blog about never being far away in traveling these days reminded me of a birthday present my daughter gave me about twelve years ago. Maya was extensively traveling the world with her partner Bram to look for images of the future. She is a futures researcher. She decided to get me a...
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Nov.29.2012
In September we talked about Boomers buying and selling their youth. Let’s take it a step further … what’s in your closet, garage or attic that you can reminisce over for a few minutes … and then let it go?
I ask because I’ve had to do that recently. Let’s face it – times are tough and some of us...
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Nov.26.2012
Which - of course - you may purchase for any festive occasion. And - of course - I would choose to get the one with the delightful elephant on the cover. {*hint*}
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The Most Expensive Books of the Season
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Nov.21.2012
Today as the holidays come jingling into our lives again, I ponder the gifts I have given my children throughout my 23 years as a mother.
During a conversation with a friend, I realized that I had given my children the two simple gifts I had wanted them to have most while they were ...
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