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Category Archives: Just an Everyday Life
Norwegian Tortillas in Four (Short) Chapters
1 Family Heritage. When your parents are from Minnesota (& you’re anywhere near my somewhat advanced age), there’s a high likelihood that your ancestors are either from Sweden, Norway, or Germany, with a few other random northern European bloodlines thrown into … Continue reading
Longer Than You Think
Have you noticed that whatever the project, it takes longer than you think? Uh, like, much longer. Never, ever shorter. Definitely not your usual bell curve of averages. Especially at this time of year, it seems. I (thankfully) didn’t host … Continue reading
Spinning in the Wind
By now the images are familiar: satellite shots of monster hurricane Sandy bearing down on the northeastern U.S. seaboard & scenes of cars floating like ice cubes in dirty floodwaters. We all do what we can when the wind comes…move … Continue reading
Savoring Sunlight
It seems that the taste of fall sensed early in August is already setting the table for Thanksgiving – the equinox this year was a spot on marker of our earth’s annual cycle around the Home Star. Fall has already dropped heavily … Continue reading
Posted in A Warming Planet, Just an Everyday Life
Tagged aging, fog, fog of confusion, indian summer, Shmuel Thaler, sun as star, sun shroud, tarot, The Sun tarot
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When Sluggish Is Good
Slugs have a bad rap…uh, sorta deservedly. Have you ever gotten up in the middle of the night, sleepily wandering to the kitchen to look at the waning moon or pour yourself a glass of water, when aacck!~ you step … Continue reading
Green Balls & White Balls
During times of upheaval & more-than-the-usual-degree of stress, there’s alot to be said for the familiar. No doubt, that’s one reason common wisdom says don’t change your job (if you’re lucky to have one & you can stay there) right … Continue reading
Posted in Just an Everyday Life
Tagged anna jean cummings park, blue ball park, everyday life, Frasier, grandmas, mac & cheese, our star, pyraos, save soquel, the familiar
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When Continents Collide
I wish I could recall the exact moment when I first got plate tectonics – it seems to me now that understanding the unfixed nature of things is the basis of so much human knowledge about this planet we live on, &, … Continue reading
Can Grandmas Have It All?
There’s been no avoiding the latest mothers-who-also-have-paid-work debate, a.k.a. the mommy wars. Does anyone else out there think there’s something missing in this latest salvo? & no, I don’t mean the daddy’s, although one has to wonder what’s going through … Continue reading
A Kitchen Facing West
Have you noticed how the light has changed in the past few days? & the new edge to the morning fog? Technically we’re still in the middle of summer, but I always thought it a little odd that our calendar … Continue reading
A Rat On His Back
I was heading home the other day & a bicyclist rode by with a very large white rat on his shoulder, the long pink tail hanging down his bare back. Man & rat, heading home together…it was a sweet sight. … Continue reading
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