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Category: Friendship
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More from this past weekend in Houston… First…my parents are kitten-sitting! Fifi is my nephew's kitten (his girlfriend named it.) While he's in Montana working, Fifi's hanging out with Mama and Daddy. It only took a few 'here kitty-kitty"s for her to venture from her hiding place and check me out. Before too long, I was scratching…
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My 50th birthday looms closer and closer, but I'm surrounded by friends who are riding the rapids and taking the plunge with me, so rather than dreading the drop-off, I'm just enjoying the ride. Almost every square on my March calendar has a name written on it – I'm thinking the hospital nurseries back in March…
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I'm now an official tweeter…or twitterer. Anyway…I gave in to my curiosity about this latest craze a few days ago. I figured, I'm blogging, I'm on Facebook, why not Tweet…er…Twitter? I have to say, I don't understand why everyone is all "a-twitter" about Twitter. I don't get it. I admit, I haven't had time for the…
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I've been complaining lately that I don't have enough hours in the day to do what I need to do AND what I want to do. Sunday, around 3PM, I realized that if I'm going to wish for more time, I've got to wish for the energy to use it. We only have two kinds…
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It's funny. I pass by the bowl ten times a day, but I didn't realize it had become invisible to me until I wrote the post about scouting the other day. I remember where it rested prominently on Hester's headboard-shelf, within easy reach once she was restricted to bed after breaking her hip. I remember her telling me…
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The drop was made in a pull-off area of the highway. I pulled up next to the white SUV, slid open the side door of the van and handed over the shoebox and white file box containing twenty years of history. Next, I dug around in my purse for the checkbook and two envelopes of checks,…
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Several years ago, I lost the diamond out of my grandmother's ring. At night. In my dirty van. When I realized it was missing, I started praying, grabbed a flashlight, and started examining every bit of debris I came across buried in that nappy carpet. One piece glistened brighter than the others. I found the…
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Scenes from this weekend… Friday night friends Bob, Lisa, their son Justin and his girlfriend Patty came over for smoked pork loin, chicken, and sausage, trips back through time via old wedding photos (ours – Bob and Lisa were both in the wedding), and turns playing my drums. I have a feeling Craig's List will be…
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An email from my friend Nancy this morning reminded me how quickly our lives can change….she's a teacher in a tiny 1A district southeast of San Antonio. One of her students was killed in a car accident last night. Her daughter came upon the scene in another car just minutes later. She had just been telling…
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The puppy was weak and scared - it takes a while to recover if you go two weeks without eating, and I didn't even want to imagine what he had encountered in his young life to make him so scared of venturing away from the house to the road. But Charly was counting on our walk. "C'mon, puppy, it'll be…
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