Month: October 2009
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More stuff, gree life
Talking green sounds so responsible – so clean that we overlook the reality that most people ultimately practice brown in their perpetual quest to have bigger, better, more efficient, newer possessions. Currently, the quest is for smaller, thinner, faster computers with more gadgets that perform slightly better than last year’s model. With each replacement, each…
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honeymoon is definitely over
The signs existed for months — even years. I just did not see the whole picture. Maybe I did not want to see it. It is difficult for anyone, let alone a wife of many years to face the facts as I have had to face them the last couple of weeks. Finally, I admitted…
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Little folks are everywhere watching you
Be careful. Be very careful. The little people are everywhere, watching you, listening to you and they remember everything. Little pitchers do have big ears. Very big ears. At dinner, the 3-year-old sat between his dad and grandfather who talked about adult things ignoring the little guy. He was not ignoring them. Totally cued into…
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Boo! it’s a birthday
Goblins chortling, witches cackling or ghosts jumping up from behind a plastic tombstone do not phase the child. He laughs and runs up to look at every store or yard display while his older cousin cowers behind the nearest adult. Spooky, scary things have fascinated the youngest grandson for more than a year. In the…
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more school
In the presidential election of 1960, my school friends assured me that if John F. Kennedy won we would have more school days, fewer vacations and school on Saturdays. In the gubernatorial election in the mid 1980’s, my children came home from school terrified that if Clinton lead the state government, they would have school…