Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Every Picture Tells a Story
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As a baby, my daughter was all eyes … huge sapphires that filled her face. They acted as magnets, drawing perfect strangers to her… especially men, it seemed. It made me uncomfortable, as you can imagine. She must have sensed my unease, because she's been on guard around strangers ever since. Especially men. And as…
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Just as I suspected, I spent several hours catching up on e-mails last night. (Or trying to, at least. I was behind before I even left for vacation last week.) Two of them really stood out – enough that I decided to share them here, before I start boring everyone with vacation pictures and stories.…
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First choices are the ones with my kids of course… it's not often I have them all together! I love this one of me and Tommy – look at that face! It overwhelms him how much I love him, but he handles it well. I picked this one because it has a bit of the…
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It started with a 7th grade slumber party and a crush on an older brother. It led to hours and hours on the phone, a few letters, a shy face-to-face encounter and "Mitch" scratched into the top of a beautiful wooden box decorated with ornate inlaid wood given to me by my grandmother. I don't…
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Ever since we traveled down to Huatabampo, Mexico for his little brother's wedding in 1998, Tom has been raving about the Mexican Hot Dogs sold by street vendors there. He described them to me, but I wasn't impressed or tempted to try one myself – avocado, tomato and lettuce on a hot dog? Oh, heck…
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Independence Day took on a new meaning for us today. It's done – Belle's sentence is over, her Cone of Shame gone, as well as her stitches. She's an outside dog again, free to run and jump on Max as much as she wants again, or at least as much as he'll allow. No more…
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Blogger extraordinaire Pioneer Woman asked that question this week. Or more specifically, she asked for photographs that depicted "America" on her FlickR group. None of mine made the final cut (not a surprise – you should check out her site and see all of the awesome photos that were selected!), but I had fun thinking…
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…that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ~ United States Declaration of Independence That's it in a nutshell, isn't it? The United States of America isn't perfect, but the foresight of our founding fathers…
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I almost went to the Fourth of July parade this morning. If all the kids weren't home, or if at least one of them had been interested in going with me, I would have been sitting there on my usual curb when the heavens opened up and poured (not just rained) at 10am. For once,…
Long Hollow 