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My great-aunt Helen died last weekend. She was 97, and up until the last few months, lived mostly independently. Helen was never without a s...

My goodness! Here we are in late May. Let's see: momentous moments: 1. Husband turned 30! Celebrated with takeout and dusk walk in the p...

March-April-May list A Voyage Long and Strange - Tony Horwitz . A look at an era in American history most Americans (i.e. me) know little a...

Our spring break has a lot less spring this year. And a lot more snow. Instead of running on the beach, we're running through snowdrifts...

Cabin weekends Broomball Winter camping

Jan/Feb reads: Burma Chronicles - Guy Delisle . Jamilti and other stories - Rutu Modan . Aya of Yop City by Marguerite Abouet (Ivo...

- cards featuring dogs (initially cute, but what do dogs have to do with romantic love?) - cards referring to our "old love" - sta...

"Nature wants us to be mediocre because we have a greater chance to survive and reproduce. Mediocrity is as close to the bottom as it ...

Some thinking I've enjoyed on New Year's Resolutions: 1. Make a detailed master plan , making scary projects seem manageable 2. Not ...