When you were in school did you ever have to write an essay on how you spent your summer vacation? I’m not sure I ever did but it seems like I’ve seen multiple TV sitcoms or movies where that’s been the case. In any case, I don’t much feel like writing an essay, since I’m…
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A Celebratory December
It’s been a great December. Despite all our worries and stressing with lists of things to do and buy, places to go, people to see, and today’s gloomy weather, it’s been a great month. And December turned out to be all about celebrations. We first celebrated the marriage of two friends as they joined their…
It wasn’t easy
This doesn’t happen very often anymore, but a couple of weeks ago they were all in the same room at the same time. Doug had all three kids home under one roof (and they all slept here that night!) and their cousins were here too. Of course this made it a picture-taking occasion. So with…
Advice to the young
Remember what it was like to be young, before working for 20+ years, free of battle wounds or scars, young and ambitious, ready to conquer the world and live happily ever after? Sometimes it seems like that was so long ago and as we watch the young people in our lives try to make their…