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Category: Spinning Plates
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Don't my drums look lonely sitting there in the corner, all alone? (And please don't even mention the dust on the floor or the unfinished closet and baseboards…) Someday….someday…there will be time… I think I was wise to extend my deadline for being a real drummer to my fifty-fifth birthday, instead of my fiftieth…
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"Are these for me?" Kendall asked me this morning, referring to the muffins cooling on top of the stove. Of course they were for her – no one else was home. Why was she asking? Oh!!! "I forgot to put the blueberries in them! I'm so sorry!" "Mom, they ARE blueberry muffins."…
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I feel like I'm drowning, suffocated by my own good intentions, ambition, dreams, and false-sense of time, specifically the number of hours in a day. I'm trying to do everything I want to do and think I need to do, and I can feel myself fading away, diluted by duty. I should know better - I'm…
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I have been caught up in the cyclone of TG this weekend, whirling from one activity to another, and trying to do my homework in between. Her schedule is exhausting, but I think it's pretty typical for a high school student these days. I don't remember being this busy, though. Friday night was filled…
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Last week I fell asleep watching "To Kill a Mockingbird." This week our assignment was "Rear Window" and "The Graduate." I had "Rear Window" on VHS – Wednesday night I finished up my chores and settled down to watch it at 9pm. At 10pm, Tom was shaking me awake. I ordered "The Graduate" from Amazon, but…
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Back to the real world this evening at 7:30 pm…lugging my suitcases and new ice chest filled with all the food we bought and didn't eat down to the house…unpacking…laundry…feeding dogs…homework that was technically due Friday night but isn't finished yet. I tried to work on it this weekend (really I did!) and got…
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Why I need this weekend in Port Aransas… This is another reason… I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it: Friends make life a lot more fun. (Charles R. Swindoll ) Hope your weekend is…
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Some people talk about multi-tasking as "juggling," and that's a good metaphor, I guess, but I prefer "plate-spinning." Don't ask me why. (What we should be wondering is why we describe our lives and responsibilities in terms of circus acts…) Maybe it's the way I handle my tasks - give one a spin then ignore it while I…
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I'm a Band mom today…first football game of the season. I emailed two pages to my teacher last night just under the midnight deadline, then woke a few hours later before dawn to move the laundry around, pay some bills, and be ready to chaperone a bus full of high-schoolers to a sun-kissed stadium where…
Long Hollow 