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Jul.17.2012
Little Aubrey visited our house for the very first time today! I held her for hours as her daddy packed up Little League and swimming trophies. She and I stood swaying gently in what was once his and his brother's room and will now be his brother’s and soon-to-be wife’s room as his brother...
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Dec.12.2011
Potty humor isn’t my preferred style of humor. People often describe my writing as sarcastic, witty or dry. (Sometimes I refer to RJ as people.) Our granddaughter, who turned two on Friday, has forced me to embrace potty humor.
Yesterday after breakfast I took Eden upstairs...
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Dec.10.2011
The iPad 2 on my desktop demanded my attention Thursday at 8 AM, as did my iPhone, my Canon SX30is and my Timex. Time was my essence principle. Oh yeah, I can’t forget to take the Kindle, my Kindle Fire. That was as simple as 1, 2, 3. I packed all the items in my briefcase. It wasn’t exactly a...
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Apr.20.2011
We're babysitting our sixteen month-old granddaughter for seventeen days. It’s been six days but the number of days doesn't matter when each day feels like a year. If you don’t hear from me in a few weeks, it’s because I’m recuperating in the old folks home. Eden’s an easy toddler; she rarely...
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Mar.28.2011
2011 is shaping up to be one heck of a year for so many people. There's so much going on in the world, it's hard to keep track, and goodness knows I don't know what to think about half of it.
Re: Libya, I don't understand why we are there. Ghadafi (however you choose to spell it) is a lunatic,...
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Mar.27.2011
Unlike my previous novels, set in places I had merely glimpsed, with characters that were entirely fictional—albeit quite alive in my own head—JERUSALEM MAIDEN was inspired by my grandmother and her untapped artistic genius.
Born in Jerusalem, my grandmother Esther was an astonishingly gifted...
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Jan.22.2010
I was sitting on a chairlift at Badger Pass in Yosemite fifty feet off the ground trying not to think about the fact that it was really cold, the chair was wet and slippery, and there was no seatbelt.
I closed my eyes and concentrated on being safely inside and warm, which made me think about...
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Sep.13.2009
The Commitment to Write I will not write about the forthcoming stages of this book's process and it is likely the full story will not be realized for many years, but the following is a short record of the process of beginning. This blog is my commitment.
My grandmother wants me to write about...
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Jan.27.2009
Sleeping Beauties
As I sat at the sewing machine the other day, making curtains for my daughter, it brought my mind back to the day when I was in my late teens. Forty years ago, and the first time I ever followed a pattern in sewing, by making doll clothes for my youngest...
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Nov.15.2008
OATMEAL BY CANDLELIGHT
One of my granddaughters, three and three-fourths years of age, along with her dad and mom, came to visit the first weekend in October.
For whatever reason, she and her older sister think that I make the best oatmeal in the world. I suspect it’s because they have been used...
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