The alarm sounded at 5:30 a.m., and my husband was soon pouring powder into his water bottles with the precision an alchemist uses to turn metal into gold. Before the sun broke the sky, he was pedaling down the driveway and down the road to meet some of the 1,700 volunteers to begin his check-in [...]
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With your baby face held high and a beaming grin, you marched off to school. On your BIRTHDAY, carrying news, “Grandpa is fine,” inside of your heart. We brought Popsicles in a blue cooler to share, sixteen boys and five girls for this class of — geesh! it’s 2022! (How old will I be?!) While [...]
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I looked at my friend blankly when she posed the questions. Tough questions that could only be asked by a friend who knows that if she did pinch a nerve, she could handle any fallout that would come as a result of my response. Questions I wouldn’t be able to stand for if I had [...]
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Fried zucchini is scrumptious, but time-consuming. The long fat zucchinis, as one reader calls them, the ones that “got away”, make great sliced discs, perfect for frying. From a time standpoint, fried zucchini is, really, a summer time delicacy. The time required to slice those zucchinis into paper-thin discs, (grandma always says, the thinner the [...]
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The boys took over 1,000 photos in less than an hour of each other on the wakeboard. Their challenge was to narrow their collection of wakeboard photos to these.
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The kids love to snack on sunflower seeds, and because seeds are cheap, I decided to plant, for the first time in my life, sunflowers. I was a bit unprepared for their showy, spectacular opening. Every morning for about a week, the boys would tug at my arm, and yell, “Grab your camera! Look at [...]
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As purely a pre-cautionary measure, all costume related apparel has been removed from his wardrobe, in preparation for his first day of kindergarten. And, that alone, is enough to break my heart. And I know that got a tear drop out of the eyes of his pre-school angels
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They spend days and days building their own life-size battle cruisers, complete with imaginary flame throwers that “destroy stuff.” They add steering wheels and controls for speed. It helps, a bit, that we don’t make them pick it all up each night — so they can build on the previous day’s progress… like REAL construction [...]
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The sun burns hot, the trees are still vibrant green, and the garden is still producing its bounty of harvest. By all accounts we appear to be in the throes of mid-summer. But July it is not, and we know it. The end caps at the stores are laden with school supplies, the sunset comes [...]
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