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From My Diary, December 28, 2003: My ex-husband’s mail-order bride
2004 is upon us And so I begin my 2004 journal early, with an entry on December 28. I’ve done a lot of soul searching about myself these last few days and I mean that in the strictest sense of … Continue reading
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Summer
It is officially Summer at Magnolia Manse. I know it is May, and the season begins in June, but my children are out of school for two months and three weeks and that makes it summer.
This week I traveled To Chattanooga with my eleven year son, Matthew, on his class trip. We wandered the aquarium examining the fishes, telling each other everything we knew about every fish we saw. Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, aquarium, chattanooga, dad, magnolia, marriage, skateboard, son matthew, yank
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What is truly valuable to you? My list
We, as Americans, have become so enamored with consumerism and fresh acquisitions, we cannot perceive the abundance with which we are surrounded. In our need/want/desire for more, more, more, we overlook those things that if lost, would prove to be … Continue reading
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Mary Alice
One of the things I most wish to impart with the Laloba page is tribal knowledge. Women’s knowledge — that special knowledge that civilized human beings, particularly Americans, don’t have (or even know they need) anymore. . . When my … Continue reading
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Marshfield, another time, another world
I’m on vacation and have fallen under the spell of Massachusetts. We rented an old house (if houses aren’t approaching the century mark, somehow they don’t appeal to me). It is on a quiet street that leads to the ocean, and its true name is The Boat House. Continue reading
Who’s Your Daddy? Soul Dances and Forgiveness
And if, in the Great Soul Dance in the Sky known as reincarnation, we did make a pact to act out that bizarre relationship on this plane, his sacrifice was far greater than mine Continue reading
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Tagged arp, Cowboys, Dube, full blood, man child, sexual connotation, soul dances, Sprayberry High School, who s your daddy
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Jumping the broom: Taylor and Ashley Evans
For years I’ve had on my family photos a link to Ashley Evans, with the relationship remark, “wish she were mine”. Yesterday she came as close to that as she ever will, when she married my son Taylor. Continue reading
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Denzel Washington and my abercrombie & fitch kid
My kid is in a movie with Denzel Washington filmed at his high school. Remember the Titans. Continue reading
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Tagged abercrombie & fitch, denzel washington, ironies, jerry bruckheimer, movies, podcast, remember the titans, screenplay
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Taking Life as it Comes and Maybe That’s a Good Thing
Three of my children recently went to Boston with their father and extended family. It went well for about four days and then my 19 year old, Marko, who mostly doesn’t get along with his Dad, had had enough. They … Continue reading
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