If you live in New England, I probably don’t need to say anymore about the weekend that’s just occurred in my house! Hubby didn’t feel well Thursday, by Friday a headache, by 5 pm on Friday a full blown flu event.  Saturday saw 103 temperature, juice, recharge liquids and soup (thank goodness for those soups […]
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Time and space for my brain
January 25th, 2008 · Comments Off on Time and space for my brain · Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately – well, actually, if you were to ask some friends and colleagues, they might tell you I think about it most of the time. In my workplace, perhaps in every workplace, one gets a “reputation” for certain ways of being. I’ve not asked anyone, but I think […]
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Hippies on sabbatical
January 17th, 2008 · Comments Off on Hippies on sabbatical · Uncategorized
Or are we? Well, we are going on sabbatical. And, in some ways and places, I suppose we’d love to still be known as hippies. You see, once upon a time, that’s what hubby and I called ourselves. I got thinking about these things this morning when we were making a spread sheet of the […]
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Never too old to be a daughter
January 15th, 2008 · Comments Off on Never too old to be a daughter · Uncategorized
Yesterday I had a great phone conversation with my mom.  She is 81 years old and has had a long and too often tough life. She’s one of 12 children, being only 1 of 3 left alive. She left school in elementary school to help her mother raise the other children. I had mentioned that […]
Chekhov and idiots
January 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Chekhov and idiots · Uncategorized
I have a greeting card I picked up at some point (maybe in my favorite card shop – Jules Besch Stationers -in Wellfleet, Cape Cod) that has a small child looking grumpy over a bowl of cereal as the illustration. At the top of the card it says “Any idiot can face a crisis — […]
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