Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Just thinking…
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Vacation is over for sure. Reality smacked me in the face this past week as I tried to pay bills and found myself scraping the bottom of the piggy bank after a week or two of NO income. (A week for Tom, thanks to Freescale's mandatory "one week a quarter off without pay" ordinance, and…
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The Mosquito Man…the Pied Piper of my childhood. Why, oh why, was it so much fun to ride our bikes behind him, lost in the dense poisonous fog he sprayed throughout the neighborhood to kill the mosquitoes? But there's no doubt it was one of the highlights of summer…just the words "Mosquito Man" caught our…
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The weatherman told me this morning it would be another 100+ day, so as soon as the sunlight brushed the hilltops, I stepped outside and called the boys for our walk. Frankie was ready, but Max and Charly were no where to be seen. They'd had the same idea as me, apparently…Walk early, before the hollow…
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Day 1 and Day 2 at the beach, I collected seashells and photographs. On Day 3, I collected thoughts… Tom is really just a little boy in a man's body… We were walking on the beach and a ghost crab dashed in front of us and plunged into a hole, trying to hide. Tom couldn't…
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Sometimes the days leading up to a vacation can be so stressful, so packed with activity trying to tie up loose ends and anticipate problems, that you wonder if it's even worth it to try to get away. That's how I was starting to feel this week, especially considering the number of emotional twists…
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In the grand scheme of things – especially considering this week of life and death – the sickening, helpless frustration I have felt over the the massive wall of dirt that now towers above our pond, threatening its existence, seems like a minor problem. But our friend Jim reassured us that it isn't insignificant; he pointed out…
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"It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last." ~William Barrett, American philosopher and professor. Relevant words, especially for these days…celebrating fathers, remembering a friend's son, and looking ahead to when I really take Kendall to college…in only a few short weeks. These are hectic, heartbreaking, busy…
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Confession…I spanked my kids. And I don't regret it. Especially after watching this…
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Tom and I are trying to slow down a little. We've been hitting the trails on our property the last couple of days, taking advantage of the sunshine and sub-100 degree temperatures while they both last. This evening, Charly, Max and Frankie all went with us, but yesterday the dogs wimped out and just Frankie tagged…
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"Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are." - Robert Pinsky When Kendall's soccer game was canceled last Saturday morning, Tom and I grabbed that chance to take a walk through my old neighborhood where my parents still live. We headed for a path that meanders through the heart of Deepwater, a twenty-or-so-acre island of mowed…
Long Hollow 