The Only Constant in Life…

…is Change, as the Change Gurus keep reminding us.  You know who they are:  those folks who muck around with our lives, tweaking this and altering that and causing general uproar, all the while assuring us that what they are doing is Normal, because “the only constant in life is Change.” I keep waiting for [...]

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Lunch

I have a relatively minor but important indulgence:  I eat lunch out almost every day.  It’s ironic that the importance of Lunch Out escalates during Orthodox fasting periods, when we’re supposed to be saving money for almsgiving, but there it is:  I find other places to cut back so I can give alms, but Lunch [...]

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I’m Back, and Worse Than Ever

This post is in the nature of a letter my mother once received from a brother who stayed out of touch with the family for ten years.  He was in the Navy, so every once in so often my mother would get her sister (who worked for the American Legion) to track him down, and [...]

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PostAday: “Back to Our Sheep”

Which, I am reliably informed, is how Russians say, “Let’s get back to work.”  Interesting that in the USA, we say, “Back to the salt mines” — which were always a feature of Russian life. “If you could have any job in the world, what would it be?  Bonus: What is the worst job you’ve [...]

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PostAday: Oh Please

Today’s topic:  ”How do you stay entertained when you are snowed in?”  To which I, living in New England, can only respond, “Oh, please.” I personally have so much handwork that I practically pray for snow days — though, having survived one winter (I think it was ’08-’09, or it might have been the year [...]

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Retirement: One Year Later

It only recently occurred to me that it’s been one year now since my husband retired, an event I was not looking forward to.  I’m not the first woman who has at least thought, if not said, “I married him for better or for worse, but not for lunch” — although actually, at one point [...]

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Silence…for no good reason

Well, except that I am so close to finishing that dratted train cross stitch (see blog header) that I have been putting in most of the hours of my day on that.  Also, because nothing much has been going on around here. We did finally unload my father-in-law’s house.  I didn’t want to blog about [...]

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Back in Action

On Sunday, our computer crashed.  We’ve only had the thing a little more than a year, and it has, I think, 80 gigabytes of hard drive (when we took it back to Staples, where we bought it, the sales clerk described it as a “beast”), so this shouldn’t have happened.  But I turned it off [...]

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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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Introducing…

Fr. Baarsanuphius! …and flock. From left:  Abby, Millie, Fr Baarsanuphius, and the most senior member of the flock, Mrs. Mutton. Mrs. Mutton has been with us for 25 years now.  She was an anniversary present at a time when knitting was my primary creative outlet, and she remained our sole sheep until 1997, when my [...]

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