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I Think You’ll Like These

I’ve been saving these goodies up for you…yep…just for you. How ’bout let’s start with the munchies, because, well, you know, if we don’t, we’ll get kinda cranky.  Grrr…. Cue French café music.   You have to try the Crème Brûlée French Toasts on Smitten Kitchen.  They are…mmm…hold on a minute…another bite…let’s see, what was I saying, […]

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Failure As Fertilizer for Hope

This.  From Kay Ryan’s The Best of It: New and Selected Poems. [Post image: What cows eat by nosheep on stock.xchng]

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Turn the Heater On If You’re Cold

Many years ago, I remember talking with my sister about how numb we were growing up.  Because there were so many of us kids, we learned to tolerate any situation, any temperature, without worrying about how we were feeling.  She was going through therapy, as was I, and at one point in the conversation, she […]

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For Dan and Liliana

This is for you, my love. And this is for you, my cherub. I love you.  You know that? [Post image: Dan and Liliana looking at paintings in the Louvre, Paris, January 2011]

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Learning to Dance With the Limp

Something crazy happened on Saturday morning.  Dan and I had an overnight in Minneapolis—to see Jersey Boys and eat tapas at Solera.  We were the first ones to show up to breakfast the next morning.  We ordered.  Then, a cute older couple walked in (not old, maybe mid-50s).  They walked past us, and the guy […]

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