Sleeping Arrangements What’s more fun than a new kitten? (See ASPCA) But they do require some serious training to show them who’s boss. So the day we brought Jackie home from the ASPCA we read him the house rules – don’t bite the hand that feeds you, keep your paws off the house plants, and…
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Suprise Me
Sleeping Arrangements
Prompted By Training Pets
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Sleeping Arrangements What’s more fun than a new kitten? (See ASPCA) But they do require some serious training to show them who’s boss. So the day we brought Jackie home from the ASPCA we read him the house rules – don’t bite the hand that feeds you, keep your paws off the house plants, and…
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News, Tragedy, and Unity
Prompted By Assassination
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When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the news media became a national unifier. Would the same be true today?
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When Women Do the Asking
Prompted By Leap Day
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I remember feeling passive and helpless when it came to dating.
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Listen, Learn, Change
Prompted By Protests
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I have watched the coverage over the past several weeks with fury and outrage. I don’t take to the streets for many reasons; arthritic toes, virus in the air, tendinitis in a hip flexor. Those sorts of long walks and demonstrations do not suit me. But I read and watch everything closely and think deeply…
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Sending our Children to College
Prompted By Priciest Purchase
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Even including our home of 45 years, our priciest purchase was our children’s educations.
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Pandemic Blues
Prompted By Pandemic, Year Three
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But the pandemic has exposed and eroded me, along with the world I live in.
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Hope is a thing with feathers
Prompted By Earth Day
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Genuine, hopeful retreat is possible.
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With a Baby on the Way
Prompted By Children's Books
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Before my children were born, they each received the classic Boston tale, “Make Way For Ducklings” as a gift. The book is so popular that in May, there is a Ducking Parade, (children dress up as ducklings) and retrace part of the duckling’s route through Beacon Hill to the safety of the Public Garden. Years…
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Strangers in the Car
Prompted By Talking to Strangers
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Hitch hiking has transformed from adventure to a warning about self preservation.
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A Certain Cachet…
Prompted By Fragrant Flashbacks
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Smell is the sense most connected to our inner brains, to our memories and emotions
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