Here are a few manners I didn’t pass on to my kids …
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Suprise Me
Some Manners I Don’t Miss
Prompted By Manners
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Here are a few manners I didn’t pass on to my kids …
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Big (50th!) Reunions Spark Big Questions.
Prompted By Reunions
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Any half-century anniversary sparks big questions. Even once inattentive high school history students are nudged into a perspective more sweeping than personal status and sentimental relations with peers. Too, self-important Boomers have always had a habit of “scaling up” the primarily personal into generational (and national) significance.
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Cash, Crash, Kharmash!
Prompted By Best Advice: Money
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Stop, drop and roll is what the tell you when you're in a fire, but what's the right thing to do when you're under fire by a long time friend who knows just a bit more about money than you...and isn't afraid to tell you! This happened today.
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Work Parking Problems
Prompted By Parking
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Back to the Garden
Prompted By Woodstock
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"We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon."
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The Hope Sisters
Prompted By Aunts & Uncles
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The more I got to know my aunts the more I appreciated the ways they’d survived a childhood that, for all its adventure and exoticism, was marked by long separations and displacement.
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Six Words
Prompted By One Year of the Pandemic
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Orders lifted, may still stay home.
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Playing the Numbers Game
Prompted By Superstition
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Superstitions are heightened during stressful times, for example, when expecting a child.
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Gustav and the Rugrats
Prompted By Spring Celebrations
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Virtual Seder like it's 1999.
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Broken Chain
Prompted By Chain Letters
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I didn't have a lot of friends in middle school, so I might have run out of friends to target for passing the letters along.
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