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2009 Recap: Best Trip of 2009

December 1, 2009

A (virtual) blogging buddy of mine, Gwen Bell, has come up with a fantastic idea: She is hosting the Best of 2009 Blog Challenge this month. The challenge is to address one or all of the 31 writing prompts and “share your best moments of 2009 over the course of December.” When I was a [...]

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Life is Known to be Fatal

November 3, 2008

Like most people, I’ve lost people I love to various forms of death. Only one of them has been expected–we knew my Grandma Isiphine was not long for this world when the Alzheimer’s took her. What was unexpected about my Grandpa George’s death was that he died before Isiphine. He was old and frail, we [...]

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The Meet and Greet a/k/a BlogHer Preconvention

July 11, 2008

Imagine my glee with getting to meet Chilihead, one of my fav blogger peeps, in PERSON.  Real life.  She ventured over to the real home of …and the pursuit of happiness yesterday and spent the day with me.  If you want to get to know me better, I blog about a lot of silly nonsensical [...]

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Iowa: The Farm

August 23, 2007

When I was a child I would spend a week each summer with my grandparents on their farm in Iowa. The town they live in is very small and mostly populated with retired farmers now. I have seven aunts and uncles and almost 20 cousins on one side of my family. Many of them lived [...]

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Iowa: Life on the Lake

July 18, 2007

Thanks for a fantastic time, Auntie M and Uncle D! It was simply wonderful!

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Iowa: Now What are You Going to Do?

June 26, 2007

When we’re at the lake or the farm—anywhere in Iowa—the pace is slower, the freedoms larger. My children are in awe that they can run wherever they like without worrying me, they can drive great-grandpa’s lawnmower or golf cart without my hovering to help them. The first time Max drove the golf cart my grandpa [...]

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