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Wife, mom, grandma, curious observer of the world around me.
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In The Park . . . (opens the original)
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The Drummer and I live across the street from a city park. We watch the seasons come and go as the oak and maple and sycamore and locust trees leaf out, gracefully shade sidewalks and grass in the park, then blush and drop their leaves for winter. We note the school kids who wander through the park on their way to school, and we watch as they head back again toward home, clutching band instruments and notebooks and lunches. We observe little ones swinging and jumping and running as their parents
Fiction Friday: Borderlands (opens the original)
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Noisy in Church (opens the original)
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Notes from Home: September 22, 2026We can’t say “out” at our house any more; Pounce knows that word and heads for the back door (squirrels! rabbits!) immediately when she hears it. If we don’t let her go out right away, she does her best to let us know we are failing our duty to her.So now, instead of saying “out,” we just say “on the other side of the door.”I wonder how long it will be before she figures that out . . .************<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substa
Fiction Friday: Borderlands (opens the original)
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Ordinary Time . . . (opens the original)
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September 15, 2026This past week we observed the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.This particular anniversary seemed to hit harder than usual, perhaps because it served as a reminder of how much things have changed as a result of those events.But anniversaries are just that—anniversaries. Once they are past, the memories don’t disappear, but they aren’t top of mind as we ease back into everyday life, into “ordinary time.”Here is a lightly edited blog post from the
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