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An interesting few days, to say the least. DW and I feel as if our house has had the 48-hour virus complete with the runs, for the rains that we have been experiencing since Sunday have hit us above and below virtually nonstop. DW’s been handling the flooding upstairs (we can’t stop the rain from…
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Go. William Ackerman has been playing nonstop on my cd player since school ended nearly 10 days ago. The cd is called Imaginary Roads, and it is one that I is loaded with many, many moments of serenity and peace when I lived in a cabin on the western shores of Chesapeake Bay. It is…
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Thirteen Things about rus vw on this first Thursday of Summer Vacation1….First and foremost, Happy Birthday to Janet over at fond of snape. She always has engaging posts…you’ll spend hours at her site. Enjoy the day, Janet! 2. I think I am finally getting into a groove with summer vacation. It’s taken us a full…
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Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails. ~~henry david thoreau, Walden In this first week of summer vacation, I find myself guilty of overreacting to every spilled drop of water and every word spoken by…
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Happy Summer Solstice, all. This day, where solstice is recognized officially at 8:26 a.m. here on the east coast, signifies the moment when the sun is farthest from the earth. It is the “longest day” of the year, and beginning at 8:27 a.m., we begin our six-month descent into the winter solstice, where the sun…
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Simplify, simplify, simplify! ~henry david thoreau 18 June 2006 It is only the third day of summer vacation, but I already feel overwhelmed by the amount of “stuff” piled high on my desk and around my chair. In fact, there is simply too much stuff in this room, and I know it is ridiculous and…
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A journalist always has an obligation to her audience to deliver the news truthfully. Even when elements of creative nonfiction are used to craft an article, it’s never a good idea to be misleading for dramatic effect, especially when the piece is about a random murder that happened just a few days ago. Yet, the…
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go. Just woke up. Last day of school, and still much paperwork to do. Two sets of finals administered yesterday went very extremely well, and I am reading through them now. Much to ponder this morning. As always, C-Loo is on my mind. I’ll call her husband tonight to see how she is fairing with…
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go. C-Loo begins her chemo treatments today. This has been a fast and furious change of events for her and for the entire family, as this cancer is much more aggressive than the lymphoma she had in 1990. She lives in Orlando, and here I am in Baltimore. When she battled cancer the first time,…
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I had the great fortune to take MP, my younger daughter, to school with me a few months ago….Not only were my students wonderful with her, I think it was probably…
The Baltimore Writer 