Ruby, Ruby, Ruby do you love me?
Tin’s little friend across the bayou has handed down some cute clothes – like the outfit from Argentina – and it’s so nice to know that they will grow up together.
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Playdate – the new social agenda
We had scheduled a playdate with friends who adopted from Ethiopia and asked Tin’s friend from across the bayou to stop by as well. Playdates are known for their socialization process and for the fun they provide for the kids, but when you have adopted a boy, whose skin is darker than your own, who must grow up in harmony with two mommies, it’s more than just a process it is a life that you…
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The long and windy road
I tried to ride my bike out to the lakefront this morning but when I turned to the left to avoid the Marathon, I ran smack into the runners, and when I jogged to the right I ran into them again – there was no getting around the race as it was running down every artery around City Park there was. But I finally made it to the lakefront and when I got there it…
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Mardi Gras Marathon
They changed the route for the Mardi Gras Marathon and thereby cancelled an entire block party tradition. Every year my neighbor would hang his banner that said “You’re About To Take a Turn For The Worse” and we’d all stand outside in pajamas drinking Mimosas and handing out cigarettes and beer to the runners.
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Zoos are out, same sex marriage in
A friend stopped by with his daughters, one who is in sixth grade, he said that she wanted to interview us because she had been assigned a paper to write and all of the topics were so banal such as Do You Think Zoos are Good or Bad and she asked to pick her own topic and decided she wanted to write about Same Sex Marriage.
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Before it ends
If it just happens that the world is going to end, could I just say one more time AMEN – we won the Superbowl!!!! Yes, indeed.
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Are we speeding towards an apocalypse or a new beginning?
There are lots of theories swirling around about the Mayan calendar and the now ubiquitous 2012. I’ve heard apocalypse and I’ve heard that we are in a cycle that is ending, and we are nearing the narrower part of the funnel and that as we enter this phase, everything is speeding up to supersonic speed and that is not just catastrophes like the earthquake in Chile or the near miss Hawaii just had, it is…
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Dawn till dusk
All of the cliches you hear your whole life are sort of true. My mother told me that my life would change at 25, 35, 45 and that turning 50 I would know what it meant to be woman, and that the years that followed would be fabulous. She knew her stuff. The other things like you don’t know what it means to be a mother until you are one, life is short (but wide),…
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When you mean what you say
I was wishing my dear friend a happy birthday today and gave her an illustrated copy of the Tao Te Ching – there are only so many people who would really appreciate this book in my life and she’s one of them. It’s of course the one translated by Stephen Mitchell but I said this book has been a constant companion on my bedside for more than two decades. She said her horoscope was stellar…
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It’s a good day to throw your arms up and say yeah
I was able to get out and walk both Loca and Tin today as the weather warmed up a little and I was working on something early and wasn’t able to take Loca out on schedule. Spring is coming – I feel it in my sinuses as much as in my soul and all I have to say is Amen – we are sick of the cold and I could have just kicked Punxsutawney Phil…