Month: March 2002
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imagination entertains
“Many have no happier moments than those … abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts scepters in their hands or miters on their heads …” Johnson My grandson wanted me to go find a parade – with floats. He wanted to ride a float. “Why do you want to ride a float?” “So I…
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Housekeeping for 3 adults
Life just hasn’t been the same since the last child left for college. The floors are free of toys, crayons and foot piercing Match Box cars and for a year the house was free of day time inhabitants. It was just me and my husband off to work early every day. It was very different…
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eating and drinking right … urp!
After a winter of hibernation, I woke up and decided it was time to eat right, drink right and get enough exercise. To find out “what is right and enough” I researched the grocery store check-out magazines – which I found in the free box at a garage sale. The most current magazine reviewed a…
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Big spenders go to lunch
No one ordered a 99 cent special the evening six London bankers celebrated closing a business deal and earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records for running up the most expensive restaurant meal tab ever: $62,679. By the way, they were not charged for several hundred dollars worth of food they consumed –…