Just a day or two ago, while I had a trapped audience in the car, I was lamenting the loss of mother nature in my daily life. This happens to me every winter as it seems to drag on too long and hibernation becomes less fun. But this winter it was hitting me extra hard, [...]

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(It was about 20 degrees but we happy campers still enjoyed a good hike this weekend)
An ode to nature, which I sort of miss:
Some of you might ask, where have you been? And the witty remarks on life’s little redundancies, wherefore have they flown? Well, uh, I guess I just don’t know. I’ve been [...]

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For the past four years, sadly, grocery shopping has been to me what a day at the spa has been to other women I know. It has been a long drink of water in a dry desert of me time. It has been my chance to escape the crowd of family, on a bi-weekly [...]

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(That’s all that’s between us and the next door folks, a wall of winter blues)
I got tagged! Okay, I didn’t get tagged. I just was doing my blog rounds and found this interesting one and I wonder if people don’t tag me because I tend to never join in on tags (lazy or busy [...]

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(Potato prints to illustrate the concept of a printing press. They’re soooooooooooo pretty. Unlike the ink that stained my fingernails for 2 weeks)
The important thing is not so much
that every child should be taught,
as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
-John Lubbock
So I guess the real news around here is that [...]

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(we ain’t seen much of this stuff this year…that dang global warming)
Yesterday, a lot of things happened that were upsetting to me. Supreme court things, the state of things were addressed, a good friend’s family member took a turn for the worse in health, petty arguments broke out at various establishments I hang at, [...]

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