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Category: Remember when…
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Tonight I watched Kendall in her last marching band performance. I felt a mixture of relief and wistfulness…I've spent most of my autumn Friday nights and Saturdays the last few years helping the band. It's a lot of work. My heart went out of it last year, partly because of school district politics, and it just hasn't been…
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Saturday night I wandered through dark Austin streets…the old parts, full of history…quite often tragic history. I was on an Austin Ghost Tour, Halloween version. It wasn't a BOO! type of ghost tour, although it did feel a little creepy at times, just standing near spots where murders have occurred (Austin is the proud home of the VERY…
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Okay, I can't help it. I still think Tommy and Kirby as Mr. and Mrs. Smith (aka Branjelina) a couple of years ago is one of my all-time favorite couple-costumes. I just had to share the photos…. Happy Halloween again!!
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A few years after Daniel first wore the snow leopard costume, TG decided to wear it for the elementary school's Halloween parade (a tradition I enjoyed but then it was deemed inappropriate and changed to a Book Character parade in November, which was okay until they started telling the kids who they had to be…sorry, back…
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"What do you want to be for Halloween, Daniel?" "A snow leopard." A snow leopard? What the heck is a snow leopard? Daniel found me a picture. I gathered materials and stayed up until 3 am the night before his pre-school Halloween party hot-gluing black strips of felt (and occasionally my fingers) onto a white sweat suit,…
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BUSY! That's how today felt, but looking back on it from this end, it wasn't any more full than other days – I certainly didn't get any more accomplished. It was the same old Wednesday routine – work at home, exercise, shuttle Kendall to school, take care of dogs and guinea, job #1, lunch, shuttle…
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When I was little, it was horse books and statues, rocks, shells, and Liddle Kiddles. A few years later, I was drawn to Nancy Drew books, candles, shot glasses, spoons,and all things related to cats. I also have more than a person needs of Texas, Civil War, and old Tarzan books. I have crosses, nutcrackers, beer steins, pewter wizards, and…
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This quote popped out at me this morning… Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self…
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My dear friend Ann turns fifty today. Ann is fifty….Ann is fifty? No….no matter how often I write it, or how many more years go by, Ann will never be fifty..or fifty-five…or sixty. Ann is and always has been ageless…her spirit is simultaneously young and old…fun-loving, adventurous, spontaneous, mischievous, passionate…marbled with wisdom, peacefulness, charm, practicality, and common sense. …
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Here's a rare picture of me with all of my siblings – Brenda's holding me, Donnie is lying behind us, and Buster, the big brother of us all, is on the right. Yesterday was Buster's birthday – it's hard for me to imagine he would have been sixty-one. It's hard for me to imagine I'm now older by…
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