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The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch A while back I mentioned the things I felt Andrea had stolen from us when she left. It’s not that I think she’s a thief and had any kind of malicious intent, nothing like...
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Seasonal Effective Disorder
The boys before the presents overflowed. It would be so easy to screw this all up. It really would. I’m not saying I haven’t, by the way, I think like most parents, I wouldn’t know if I did until I was...
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Take a Breath, a Deep Breath Now . . .
Take a Breath (Live) by David Gilmour from “Live at Gdansk” One of the new holiday events . . . part of our new story People have a mistaken expectation of what the holidays will be like in my...
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Pining for the ensuing chaos . . .
Noah wishes you a Merry-Xmas - my daughter took and had to share it! Simple Things by the Tedeschi Trucks Band I’m writing at the end of what could, possibly should, have been the worst day ever....
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Long Way from Home
Long Way from Home from Brotherly Love by the Vaughan Brothers Crepe Myrtles, the trees Andrea favored I had a rather unique problem tonight, one that I didn’t think would be any big deal, not for me...
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Leave the World a Bit Better…
Lonely Boy by The Black Keys from their LP El Camino Those Damn Cookies I Had to Make! I was in a mad dash scramble tonight from the moment I entered the door. It also came after a day when one...
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I never thought it was a bad little tree
Christmas Is Coming by Vince Guaraldi Over the weekend I ran a piece on Rene Syler’s site – Good Enough Mother that informed the world that yes, I had managed to toss out one of the hundreds of...
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It’s Christmas . . . Don’t Be Sad for Me
There’s a recurring phrase that is uttered throughout this time of year. Not to each other, it’s not a common phrase like “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays” or “Happy New Year” . . . nothing like...
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Old Stories
At the Trees Over the weekend, as I stated in my last post, I took the kids to the Calaveras County Big Trees park. It was during the trip to that very state park, though, that my kids asked me if I’d...
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