Month: October 2008
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What’s all the fuss about?
Eager to show-off her baby to former co-workers, my daughter-in-love left home early enough to eat breakfast, drink coffee and visit with regular customers instead of preparing them double lattes, espresso and black coffee with a shot of flavor. The shop buzzed with gossip surrounding the previous day’s bombing a 69-year-old attorney had found a…
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Building a workshop barn
This summer, my husband began building his long-dreamed of barn-shaped workshop. From the beginning he ignored everything else: The yard work, his children’s housing projects, physical injuries and family crises. Supper table conversations centered on one topic – the barn. With a detailed, blueprint off e-Bay, he prowled local lumber yards pricing building materials until…
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Critters come crawling
Creepy, crawly critters stalked us that night in 1968 when we stayed at the mission church’s attached apartment in the southern desert of Arizona. “To begin with, we had an invasion of flying ants in the church. Nasty things,” my mother wrote in a letter to my grandmother. A whirling, mass of black flies buzzed…
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lessons I learned from Dad
Throughout his life, my father taught me many lessons. First, I learned good work habits from him. When Dad said, “jump,” we asked “how high” on the way up. He did not quibble about details; we worked those out as we got into the job. I benefit regularly from the advantage of quickly completing a…
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precious pictures
Pictures dominated my spare time last week. It began with a deadline to take advantage of free prints of digital pictures – still in my camera. All I had to do was upload the pictures and sort out the really bad from the mediocre and sort of good shots. Few qualify as fantastic photos, but…