Friends
November 26, 2009
- As we draw near to the holiday that celebrates gratitude, sit down in a quiet place and take some time to think of all the people that have been with you this year. Regardless of how long each person has been in your life or how much they know you, think of what they have done, how they have supported you and what they mean to you. Life changes and most times, it is for the good. There may be ...
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November 25, 2009
- I wanted to get a headstart on the Thanksgiving holiday and share those things for which I am thankful. I hope you'll forgive me this indulgence. Here are those things for which I am thankful: My Family: To my hubby who always makes me laugh and my beautiful daughter who is the light of my heart, I am thankful. I am also thankful for my sister, brother, in-laws and all my nieces, nephews and ...
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November 25, 2009
- I heard a song this morning that summed up the mood in this nation quite well:"...because we need a little Christmas, right this very minute...lalalala, words, words, words...because we need a little Christmas now!"Sorry, but I'm a little sketchy on some of the in-between lyrics. Anyway, I heard those lines and thought, "Man, aren't they accurate?"With all that's going on, I ...
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November 20, 2009
- Who are friends? Those who can share your emotions, feelings, and problems are friends. Friends? Those who can understand you and stand in your every weal and woe are friends. Friends? Those who can stand with your adversity and can understand your vicissitudes and give you right suggestion time by time are friends. Friends? Those who can take tension of your bright future ...
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November 9, 2009
- On Saturday morning I abandoned my usual routine and drove(for the first time alone) down to visit a friend in Oxford Md. She and her husband have been friends of ours for many years.Janet and I met at summer camp when we were young teens.We know each others history,we have grown up,married,had kids,similar marital problems,the joys and problems with kids,her disappointment in no grandkids yet,me ...
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October 27, 2009
- I have a couple of tidbits I've been wanting to share with you, so get your pens and paper ready.1. Congratulations to Professor Annette Gordon-Reed for winning prize after exquisite prize for her incredible, important, must-be-read-by-all-Americans book, The Hemingses of Monticello. In addition to taking last year's National Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Pulitzer for History earlier this ...
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October 18, 2009
- Congratulations to my very good friend Kelli Russell Agodon whose book Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room has just won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize!!!
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October 16, 2009
- I’m from Kansas. So believe me, I’ve heard my share of Oz references: “hey, you’re not in Kansas anymore”, “where’s your red slippers”, “where’s Toto?” Of course, one would have to be geographically challenged in the extreme to travel to another state and have no clue that they’ve left the one they started from. Did what I just type make sense? It does ...
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October 15, 2009
- HUZZAH! HUZZAH! HUZZAH!The National Book Award Finalists have been announced. The finalists in the Young People's Literature category are: Deborah ...
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October 14, 2009
- Anyone reading love this movie as much as I do???? I see all of those hands in the air. This movie, among a few select others, are on my list of my favorites of all time. This movie however, The Wizard of Oz, I think is my ultimate favorite, of all time. I have to say, however, that I have had no realization of this until this very day, and it was prompted by a couple of different ...
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