Monthly Archives: January 2010

Specific Prayer Requests for Haiti

I cut and paste this directly from Compassion’s website. Sometimes it’s hard to even know what to pray. I was glad to read this and get some detailed directions. This was the most specific list I found so I thought … Continue reading

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Because It’s Important

I hesitated to write this post because I didn’t want to be just another blogger adding my two cents in another post about the earthquake in Haiti. But I have to. Because this is bigger than a silly blog. This … Continue reading

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Tying Up Loose Ends

Every day I’ve had a plan for the day and  a list of things I wanted to accomplish. Every day something has happened to thwart my plans and mock my list. Some of the detours were better than what I … Continue reading

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The Post in Which I Try to Think of Nice Ways to Talk About…..Upchucking

Last night I was feeling sorry for CarpoolQueen. All three of her children were suffering from GI distress of some variety. She and I were having a little chat about our respective days and I was so sad to hear … Continue reading

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Is It Repeating Myself Or Showing Off My Superior Remembery Skills When I Re-Tell a Story?

Usually I enter a January Funk right after the holidays. Unfortunately, it’s not a George Clinton and the Parliament kind of funk. It’s a missing-all-the-Christmas-spirit funk. The house always looks a little blah when the Christmas decorations get packed away, … Continue reading

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Another Post in Which I Discuss Nothing

Before I forget, I had to make a correction on the Whatever We’re Calling It Now Spiced Tea mix recipe. I said to add a little less than TWO cups of granulated sugar but I meant to say to add … Continue reading

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Dear People Who Live in States Where It Often Snows

Dear Snow State People, You know who you are. You were the ones who rolled your eyes at the Great Potential Winter Weather Emergency of 2010. You laughed when our school systems cancelled school before nary an ice crystal touched … Continue reading

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It Just Doesn’t Seem As Much Like Noise When Bobby McFerrin’s Doing It

Remember that one little nerve I told you about that was the sole survivor of 2009? Well, it lost a lot of its friends due to the number of hours our family spent in a car last year. We traveled … Continue reading

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The Recipe for Former Soviet Union Tea Mix So That Sus’s Life Can Be Swell* Again

*Swell?! Who am I? Beav Cleaver? Last month while Sus and the boys were here for a visit, I made a batch of spiced tea mix. Over the years I’ve collected three or four different recipes for spiced tea. They … Continue reading

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My Dad’s New Home (MGO*)

(*MGO stands for My Grief Observed. These are the thoughts I’m writing as a process my grief over my dad’s finish to his battle with brain cancer.) Shortly after the doctors found the second tumor in my dad’s brain, my … Continue reading

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