Lois Duncan's Blog

• Ode to My Teeth

  September 23, 2009

  • One by one you entered my life.Small, white buds, you burst through firm, pink sod,Glopping reluctantly through pureed carrots,Coating yourselves with sodden Zwieback,Hacking relentlessly at the slats of a folding play pen.Two─four─eight─you multiplied in glorious profusion,Small blooms replaced by larger ones,Crowding and shoving, meshing and missing,Stretching to find a place of your ...
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• A Mother's Day Memory

  February 19, 2009

  • In a couple of months it will be Mother's Day.  Even in today's economy, you can count on the fact that restaurants will be jammed with women in every age range being wined and dined by their families, and flower shops and greeting card stores will do big business.And I will remember, as I always do when that date rolls around, the most priceless Mother's Day present I ever received. It was the ...
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• "Hagar the Horrible's" Parents

  July 28, 2008

  • This morning, at the breakfast table, as I was perusing the comics, (which, along with the Sudoku, is how I ease my way into each day), I was hit by a wave of nostalgia at the sight of "Hagar the Horrible" returning home from one of his wild adventures, to be greeted by his valiant wife, "Helga." ""Did I ever tell you about the evening I spent with Hagar's ...
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