Month: September 2013
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Long since forgotten
No one deliberately leaves behind a mound of gold pieces, but losing a battle in war probably forced soldiers some 1,300 years ago to do just that. Burying the gold treasure signified the contempt the victors had for the losers. This summer, archeologist excavated the buried treasure found in an English field: gold jewelry, sword…
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Who is my neighbor?
Our exchange student that year looked at me with perpetual confusion. She could not understand what was I saying to her. She struggled with her lessons, reading the texts and even circling words in the word search. Desperate for some help, we called a neighborhood woman from the same country and asked if she would…
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The mark of kids in tow
Before every meal, my son and his wife stripped their baby down to a diaper and plopped her into a Bumbo seat. I found it a bit amusing. Really, a bib would work, right? But by the end of the meal with food on her hands, her face, round little belly and in her hair…
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I can see clearly now
Whizzing through the house quickly clearing away the clutter on surfaces, I stopped halfway down the hall with one startling thought, “I just put my glasses where I will not be able to find them.” I was so right. Two weeks passed before I opened the kitchen junk drawer and there they were – one…