family
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Italy 2025!
Thanks to my very generous in-laws, our family took a trip to Italy this summer. It was my first time overseas since 1988, when I went to France with the French Club at my high school, so it’s been a minute since I’ve seen Europe! The trip was a 14-day, twelve city extravaganza called “Italy’s Continue reading
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Mother’s Day Stuff
Two man-made lakes, landscaped with beautiful trees and flowers, sit in the middle of our development. As you can imagine, the mile-long paved pathway around the lakes is a magnet for dog walkers, joggers, bikers, strollers. It’s lovely to have the lakes in our neighborhood and to me, they are the shining point of our Continue reading
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On Time and More of It
For those of you who don’t know, I was recently “restructured” out of a job. Remember my lovely job in downtown Trenton? (I posted about Trenton here and here). Well, it is no more. On one hand, this is not terrible. I wasn’t thrilled with the job anyway and financially and emotionally, it made sense Continue reading
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Snow Day Time Lapse
Time it takes to find appropriate clothing for two boys on blizzard days: 45 minutes. Amount of time spent putting said clothes on boys: 15 minutes. Size of snowsuit that you are cramming your nine-year-old into: 6/7. Time it takes for little one to decide he has to pee after said clothes are in place: Continue reading
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Serenity
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity Serenity: The state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled. Have a nice weekend! Continue reading
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Why I Have Grey Hair…
JC, my eleven-year-old, had a noun test today in his Language Arts class. He had to be able to identify different types of nouns: subjects, subject compliments, direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of a preposition. Let me tell you, Blogtropolis. I write for a living and I couldn’t identify these nouns if my life Continue reading
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Meet Kiri!
Meet Kiri! We picked up Kiri from the airport on Thursday. She’s a ten-week old Kai Ken puppy from Michigan. She’s incredibly cute and awesomesauce but I feel like I have a newborn again! I’m trying to get back here to writing and WordPress because I really miss it. Once Kiri Kai Kai Princess Baby Continue reading
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Gram’s Patriotism
Happy 4th of July! I wanted to share a quick post tonight about my paternal grandmother, Dorothy. Her life was a story, but tonight I want to share something I learned about her in her death. When “Gram” died a couple of years ago at the age of 88, she had planned her entire funeral Continue reading
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The WordPress Family
Did you know that Clark Kent – yes the Clark Kent – lives in Ohio? He also blogs on WordPress. Okay, I’m not really sure who this elusive Clark Kent is, but I know this . . . Clark posts beautiful, inspiring posts about soulmates and grace, love, and humanity. He recently dinged me for an Continue reading
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Dear Lego,
Dear Lego, I love you. I really do. You amaze me on a daily basis with your ingenuity. That in this day and age of high def and iPads you can keep kids’ attention with simple, plastic interlocking 3-D shapes, is astonishing. That you can create this: . . . blows my mind. Really. The Continue reading
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