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So, my darling husband is off galavanting about wild boar hunting, and I’ve been really busy. His car was broken into last week, and the insurance company called yesterday about the claim … I don’t know where the car is or what to tell them, but I should give them a call back. The neighbor’s…

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I just got home from the concert. This was either my third or fourth Caedmon’s show, and my sixth Jars show. The opening group is a new group: Glass Byrd. The group is comprised of Christine Glass and Marc Byrd. I’ve really enjoyed their work before. Christine Glass has a couple of decent solo albums,…

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We’ve heard so many horror stories about how the Iraqi government has treated its own people . We’ve heard horror stories about how the American POWs were treated during the Gulf War. And, yet, in 1994 we allowed women in combat positions, have allowed them in the front lines of this war, and have had…

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I picked up I Taught Myself to Crochet at my local Meijer recently. It was easy and straightforward to teach me how to crochet. I’m still working on it, and it will certainly take time to get proficient, but I’ve made good progress.

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So, we went to church yesterday and the seating arrangement is totally changed. We used to have two columns of chairs with an aisle between. Seeing as we have several large families in our congregation, long rows of chairs worked quite well. Now, we have three columns of chairs with two aisles. The center section…

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Over the weekend we rented Amelie and Signs. Amelie was enjoyable, light, and quirky. Amelie learned that being kind/generous made her feel good, so she decided to do more kind/generous things. Amelie’s generosity had a deliberately harsh side, though. The Glass Man was a particularly interesting character to me, as a mentor to Amelie and…