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Writer's Block: B.Y.O.B. Holidays
Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas or An American Christmas Carol (with Henry Winkler playing the Scrooge character). -
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Dr. Tully Monster on childcare
(Lying in our tent on a beautiful late fall Sunday morning at Walnut Point State Park after a night out with the telescope, listening to birds singing, children screaming, and parents scolding)
Father at neighboring campsite (helplessly): If you don't stop running around screaming your head off, I...I don't know WHAT I'm going to do! Stop that!
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It makes me a bit wistful, seeing how many people here have planned and executed elaborate Easter meals today. I used to do this, as well, even after I stopped celebrating Easter: it was an excuse for a Spring feast, and my favorite way to celebrate was with a stew of blanched early spring vegetables with a pesto garnish, a baked polenta with ( Read more... ) -
the comfort of the predictable...
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Finally, FINALLY, a beautiful day here in central Illinois. The grass is still brown, but there are tiny signs everywhere: daffodils poking up through the mulch where I planted them last October, and the bride tree (my private name for the crabapple next to our garage that bursts into creamy white-pink blooms every April) suddenly, mysteriously, ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Money to burn
Easy. A week in Madagascar to see the lemurs and a week in South Africa on safari, without having to worry about finances. Unless, of course, memories of my trip would disappear too. That would just be cruel.
