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Monthly Archives: October 2008

{a} hello {a} goodbye…

Daily Mantra:
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.”
{emily.dickinson}

My darling Mikki….I think she must be the sweetest witch in all the land. This is her THIRD year as a witch…maybe she picks it because its so contrary to her personality. I am just...

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{dad} day

Daily Mantra: “Children learn to smile from their parents”
{Shinichi.Suzuki}

So…even though Michael and I have gray hair, 2 crazy daughters, and full time jobs,  we thought it would be the best idea in the whole wide world if we went back to school to further our educations. I mean…sersiously, we just didn’t think we were busy...

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the {new} love

Daily Mantra: “The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
{anais.nin}

I can still smell them. Little pillows of doughy goodness rising triumphantly in the old, log fueled cook stove. A small billow of smoke rolled out from the back…a reminder of the last pie baked.  I was four, and although any detail of...

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{sick} day

Daily Mantra:
Sick
{by:shel.silverstein}
“I cannot go to school today,”
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
“I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I’m going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I’ve counted sixteen chicken pox
And there’s one more–that’s seventeen,
And don’t you think my face...

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pick {up} lines…and other lies

Daily Mantra: “You make me want to be a better man.”
{melvin.udall (aka: jack.nicholson) in ‘as good as it gets}
When I first met my husband (ok, like two or three weeks after I met him) he said that line to me. At the time, I had never seen the movie…so of course, I thought he was...

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