Monthly Archives: April 2012

Where Maybe May Be the Correct Answer

“There’s something happening here.  What it is ain’t exactly clear.” In two lines, Buffalo Springfield sums it all up for me. The story of my life. The reason I write. What I write about. I used to wish I was … Continue reading

Posted in From My Life, Happiness, Life Lessons, Ponderings
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I Tawt I Taw A Putty Tat

  My husband affectionately calls me a “Twit.” At least I think it’s affectionate. At any rate, he’s going for the laugh and I’m good with that. Usage of this relatively new term of endearment started about a year ago … Continue reading

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A Tale About a Feminist, a Rabbi, and my Mother

  When I was in college a billion years ago, I went on a weekend training retreat for a campus suicide hotline service with fifteen or so other people. In the car with me were several others, including a sophomore … Continue reading

Posted in Books, From My Life, Happiness, Inspired by a Story, Life Lessons, Music
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The Octopus Knows – Round Robin, Week #5

Are you ready? It’s my turn to write a few paragraphs (or more in my case) of  THE OCTOPUS KNOWS, a story being told in installments by a group of bloggers over several weeks. The idea for this activity was … Continue reading

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It’s In the Eyes. Or the Lips.

Did you get a chance to look at the picture of Margaret Kemble Gage in yesterday’s post? Gave me the chills. Those eyes spoke of intelligence. The way the lips were skewed gave me a start. I felt like I … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Creativity, History
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