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Mother’s Day
I got an email from my mother yesterday in response to the Mother’s Day card I sent her.  “I got your Mothers’ Day card — Love it!!! It’s very cute and of course with a wonderful sentiment. Thanks for...
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You are assigned your family, you choose your friends
At times of difficulty and loss, families close ranks, they circle the wagons and protect. At least my family does, gladly. Those long elastic familial threads that stretch across thousands of miles...
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Forgetting Does Not Mean Forgiving: A Father’s Day Message
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there. Memories of my father are misty soft-focused outlines of events. They seem more like memories of photographs I haven’t seen recently. My father vanished...
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But I’ d rather know a shover than a pusher ’cause a pusher’s a jerk.
I came to a realization this weekend. It’s not that I don’t like children as much as it is I really don’t like some of their parents. I find babies to be mostly adorable and young children to be...
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The Best of SPA 2001
I sifted through my journal from 2001 and pulled out the best of the best, or what I felt was the best. A lot happened in 2001. It appears that I spent quite a while that year with a stiff neck, or at...
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Michelle Obama’s DNC Speech – Right Side of History
Transcript of Michele Obama‘s speech at the Democratic National Convention CHARLOTTE, NC — Below are the prepared remarks of First Lady Michelle Obama for the 2012 Democratic National Convention:...
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Forgetting Does Not Mean Forgiving: A Father’s Day Message
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there. Memories of my father are misty soft-focused outlines of events. They seem more like memories of photographs I haven’t seen recently. My father vanished...
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My Dad Lives in a Downtown Hotel – Not So Secret Obsession
My Dad Lives in a Downtown Hotel (28 Nov. 1973) Based on the book by Peggy Mann. Convinced that his parents’ separation is somehow his fault, a young boy tries to persuade his father to come home....
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Forgetting Does Not Mean Forgiving: A Father’s Day Message
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there. Memories of my father are misty soft-focused outlines of events. They seem more like memories of photographs I haven’t seen recently. My father vanished...
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Happy 88th Birthday Peter Falk
Today is the 88th birthday of Peter Falk. I have often mentioned that, if left to my own devices, I would have an almost the identical TV watching habit of my grandfather circa 1978-84: The Rockford...
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Happy 89th Birthday Peter Falk
Today is the 89th birthday of Peter Falk. He won Emmy Awards 28 years apart. I have often mentioned that, if left to my own devices, I would have an almost the identical TV watching habit of my...
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Happy 90th Birthday Peter Falk
Today is the 90th birthday of Peter Falk. He won Emmy Awards 28 years apart. I have often mentioned that, if left to my own devices, I would have an almost the identical TV watching habit of my...
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I got an email from my mother yesterday in response to the Mother’s Day card I sent her.  “I got your Mothers’ Day card — Love it!!! It’s very cute and of course with a wonderful sentiment. Thanks for...
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