Post-a-Day: Spaceballs

“Are you happy or sad the Space Shuttle is finished?” This is not something I would ever have dreamed I would say, but — I’m happy.  So happy. Probably most of my readers are more or less in my generation, so like me, they recall the initial excitement of the Space Age:  New worlds to [...]

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Post-a-Day: If You Don’t Like My Driving…

“Describe the worst driver you know.” That would actually consist of a number of drivers in my neighborhood, all of them women. Now, before everybody jumps down my throat:  I do remember when men routinely made Female Driver jokes.  It was back in the 1950s and 1960s, and yes, they were very offensive.  It was [...]

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From Father to Son, to Father

I had a call from my son yesterday for Mother’s Day — he wanted to know if I had received his card.  Well, no, I hadn’t, so I was especially glad to hear that he had sent one.  (I did, however, actually receive a card from my daughter.  That was a nice surprise!) Once we [...]

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Around the World by Train??

http://www.russiablog.org/2010/02/bering_strait_crossing_tunnel.php Gets my vote!

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Family Affairs

As the Buddhists say, “After ecstasy, the laundry.”  We all know that feeling.  I’m sure I’ve blogged about this before, but it bears repeating:  The story told by Kathleen Norris (in, I think, The Cloister Walk, though it may have been in The Quotidian Mysteries) about the woman who said she was going to have [...]

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The Little Engine That Could…

…do something.  I would feel more comfortable if I knew exactly where this little engine was taking us. It has been something of a revelation to learn exactly how conservative Fr. Count is.  Normally you would say, “Yeah, priest, conservative, what else” (althouth most Roman Catholic priests I know are fanatically liberal), but this guy [...]

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Dumped. Again

What a winter it’s been, one snow storm after another since December. Normally, we don’t get much snow in December at all — we might have a dusting in time for Christmas — this season, we had a good foot on the ground by Christmas, and it has continued unabated ever since. Today is just [...]

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A Note from Our Son

Yes, that’s himself over there, doing his Nathan Fillion imitation (for those of you familiar with the defunct Fox Channel TV show “Firefly”). He says that the one on his left is very left-wing, and the one on his right is into Wicca, and all the rest are married. But I love the look on [...]

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New Name

Back in February, I posted about the newest “member” of our family, my new red Toyota Matrix. At the time, she was Molly. She has a new name, “Minnie.” (Which I don’t especially care for — makes me think of Minnie Mouse. I liked Mimi, but the hubster, loyal son of Das Vaterland that he [...]

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I Am Still Here

It’s been so long since I posted that I had to verify my username and password. That’ll teach me. You can probably assess the activity in my life by the activity on my blog, which is to say, when the blog is quiet, the life is zooming off into the far reaches of the galaxy. [...]

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