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September’s Five Fabulous Finds

September’s Five Fabulous Finds

Pencil Case (http://www.jetpens.com/Nomadic-PE-09-Flap-Type-Pencil-Case-Navy/pd/4414) I am a sucker for pens and pencils.  I like to have certain writing implements for certain writing tasks.  This means that I usually have a selection of such with me – gel pens for journaling (black or blue), purple pens for grading (red is too harsh), highlighters  (yellow and green), Tricondaroga pencils (that necessitate their own sharpeners because they are triangular) . . .you get the picture.  Then there are the paper clips, sticky notes, thumb…

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Outdoor Dining

Outdoor Dining

Anyone who knows us knows that Weber and I are both suckers for God’s furry creatures.  We have a particular fondness for strays.  We are the ones who share our home with a cat who was plucked off a busy street on a 106 degree day in Dallas and a dog who was scooped up from behind a shopping center on a 17 degree February day.  Needless to say, we don’t like to see any animal hot, cold or hungry….

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Who Do You Say That I Am?

Who Do You Say That I Am?

Last week we got new mailboxes at school.  Our departmental secretary was responsible for placing our names on all the new boxes.   Typing and sticking all of those name tags must have given her an opportunity to think about names, something that i suspect we all do every now and then. To me, names are a rather strange phenomenon.  From the time most little girls realize that they can one day have a baby, they have a list of…

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Unnatural Sights

Unnatural Sights

There are days and there are weeks when you have to stop and ask yourself what has gone awry in your world.  This has been one of those weeks.  First of all our “Big Mac” computer sent a love note last week that said, ‘S.M.A.R.T failure imminent.”  To my way of thinking, failure never seems smart, but what the hell do I know?  As it urned out, the hard drive was having issues and did ultimately fail.  Why couldn’t it…

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Out of the Mouths of Babes

Out of the Mouths of Babes

This is September 6th which means that last Friday was August 31st, the last day of the month, the day that I have been posting my monthly Five Fabulous Finds. I know that I missed that August deadline; i knew it then. I tried to ignore this pesky little fact. For almost a week I was successful at this. Then reality struck back. I received a text message from my baby girl saying, “You missed your August Five Fabulous Finds.”…

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A Thousand Words Instead of a Picture

A Thousand Words Instead of a Picture

So this is the first day in 100 days that I haven’t posted a picture.  I have to admit that it is an odd feeling. It sort of feels like Empty Nest Syndrome; you give birth to an idea, spend time raising and nurturing it and then one day it is grown and gone and you are left asking yourself, “Now what?”  I am fairly sure that I am not done with this project, but at this point I have…

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