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Today it feels like fall. There is a scent of fall in the air, a slight chill when I walk outside to get the mail, and leaves are all over everything in my yard. I lit a pumpkin-scented candle, checked on the pumpkins turning orange in the garden, and bought a butternut squash that now sits proudly on my kitchen counter awaiting its transformation ( Read more... )

Over the last month or so, everyone I've encountered has either asked me how my job search is going or what it is I want to do. And every time I desperately search in my mind for some acceptable answer. I come up with "something part-time," "something I love doing," or "something that makes a difference ( Read more... )

We made it to Baltimore with very few hang ups, and we even got bumped up to first class on our first flight because we are Elite members with Continental because we fly so often (we're talking real glasses and silverware, wine, fruit bowls with a fresh shrimp salad,and cookies baked on the plane with milk! Not to mention all the leg room you can ( Read more... )

AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PDT FRIDAY ( Read more... )

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I believe my favorite summer activity is this: going out to the garden and being delighted by what is growing. There is something so simple in gardening, the fact that all you did was put a seed in some dirt and water it and suddenly God hands you food. I have come to the conclusion that growing your own food is 1,000 more rewarding than making ( Read more... )

Ok, I've danced around it, tried to make lemonade from lemons, found a way to turn the other cheek as they stripped benefit upon benefit away from me, but now Borders has just gone too far. Despite the fact that I work mainly on the floor as a barista and cashier in the cafe and do all the grunt work that all the other baristas do, Borders decided ( Read more... )

FINALLY we are in the REPUBLIC! It feels of good to be out of the UK and back to free Ireland! The second we crossed the border from the North, the weather got warm and sunny, the signs read Gaelic, and Eiot and I had a definite sense of being home. Living here for a year was not exactly easy at the time, but we remember the bad times as fondly as ( Read more... )