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Category: Remember when…
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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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Maybe it was because of all that "Kendall's-birthday" cheesecake I ate this week…or maybe because my friend Liane popped in this morning after her workout at the new Snap Fitness in town, sharing some tips and motivation…whatever the reason, I felt it was time to pump up my workout today. I usually listen to either U2 or…
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This day will come and go quickly, just like all the others this summer…this past year…the past eighteen years…but one thing is different: with the coming and going of this day, my baby will turn eighteen. I get to spend the day with her – we've spent more time together the last few weeks than…
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"My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue…an everlasting vision of the everchanging view. A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold. A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold…" Carole King's words touched something inside me the first time I heard them thirty-eight years ago, triggering a longing for richness, depth…
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I've been floating along on a cloud the past two weeks, blissfully free of the normal structure in my life. My brain needed the break – it's good to shake up routine every now and then. The problem is I lost track of time and let a dear friend's birthday sneak up on me. I remembered…
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Two months after Tommy was born in 1985, my nephew Evan arrived. He's always been a bundle of energy…smart, inquisitive, restless….and at the same time family-oriented…devoted, loving, loyal. The restless part of his personality led him to Wyoming on a job; the loving part is going to keep him there. A day or two before the…
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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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I'm stepping from the swirl of extreme emotions that have marked this week to think of my friend Leslie. Today is her 50th birthday and I hope she's having a wonderful day, despite the deluge of sadness flooding both the headlines and our friends' Facebook pages lately. I'm sure she is. She is off with Clive, celebrating in style in California…or…
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"Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other is gold.A circle is round, it has no end.That's how long I will be your friend." -from the Brownie Friendship Song In 1977, we had no cell phones…no email…no Facebook. After high school graduation, I stayed in touch with a handful of people via corded…
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If I had my druthers, I wouldn't be in a grocery store checking out at 8:15pm. But that's the only chance I had to go this week, and we were down to slim-pickin's in the pantry. So as soon as the pork tenderloin was done and I had eaten, I grabbed my list and headed to my Cedar Park HEB. It…
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