Thursday, February 20, 2020

An Emma Overdose

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Similarly to February 2011 and 2016 , I was craving some Jane Austen this month, but it looks like I went completely overboard this year! ;...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

11 years ago TODAY, I posted a Lyle Mays song; Today, he died!

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OK, this is a little bit too much of a crazy coincidence, but it's true! In fact, he died yesterday (2/10), but the news reached everyon...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

In 2019...

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(I need to do this, I've done it nearly every year! At least starting in 2010, I think) Here's the 2019 preview post . So, in 20...
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New Year, (Temporarily) Divided Family

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So much to catch up on, so little motivation to blog. Anyone still out there? (apart from Jenny in New England, hi Jenny!) This will be a ...
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Sunday, November 24, 2019

Better, Much Better

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Given the title and topic of the previous post , this is the only title I can think of as fitting for this post. Sigh... I miss blogging. ...
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Sunday, October 27, 2019

The Year of Losing, Forgetting, and Breaking Things

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Sigh... All I do is sigh... it must be aggravating to people around me. Good thing I haven't been blogging then, maybe. About that, I ...
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Monday, October 21, 2019

Test

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From my old iPhone 5! It worked! Wow!
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Thursday, May 09, 2019

Things I Did NOT Do This Semester

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I've been writing this post in my head for weeks now. I already wrote that this semester was hard , but now I'd just like to registe...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Back in the Home Renovation Bandwagon

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WOW, I'm writing a new post only a day later! ;-) This feels so 2006 or 07 or 08!  ;-D I think it's a healthy habit and now that I...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2019

A New Kind of (Awareness of) "In-Between-ness"

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Five days ago, Laura (at 11D) wrote a post with a great title, " White Collar Blues ," that compared adjuncts to freelance writers...
Sunday, May 05, 2019

A Hard Semester (Yet Incredibly Exciting)

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I began this post before April was over (I wanted to write at least once in April), :-( but of course I didn't write anything but the ti...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

It's Official (and an Independent Driver)

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The two things I mentioned in the last bullet point in my last post (about 2019) already happened. Our son got his driver's license and...
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Thursday, January 24, 2019

In 2019...

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... we went (already!) on our very first cruise and I realized my lifelong dream of going to the Caribbean (I never wanted to do is in a cru...
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Monday, January 21, 2019

In 2018...

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... so many things happened! It was a wonderful year with a few dreadful things thrown in for good measure. Maybe I'll get those out of ...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

The Cruise was (Surprisingly) Nice!

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Several people had told me that I'd love the cruise, but I had a hard time believing them. I really liked it! I mean, it is "haza...
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Friday, January 04, 2019

Leaving on a Jet Plane to Catch a Huge Boat

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Quick note to say that that in spite of the fact that next week is the first full week back at school for our sons and the first week at U#1...
Monday, December 31, 2018

Unbelievably Crazy Pre-Christmas & Houseguests' Arrival Disaster

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It's hard to believe it happened, but it did. In fact, there aren't even adequate labels for this post! :-O On December 16, Sunday...
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Sunday, November 25, 2018

November is almost over and I didn't blog once (till now)! :-(

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I blame it all on being forced to use a laptop, something that I don't like much at all, since my oldest takes over the desktop computer...
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Sunday, October 28, 2018

Sad for Brasil :-(

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Brazil elected a new president today and it was a really difficult choice, people were between "a rock and a hard place" with the ...
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Sunday, October 07, 2018

It's not funny anymore! :-(

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Over ten years ago I wrote a post about a parody of the classic children's book Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown) that made fun of ...