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Summer Days
It has been a good week. Last week was hot and muggy and miserable and full of annoying problems but this week, this week has been what summer should be. Of course, the kids go back to school in three weeks. Every year we just settle in to summer and it is time to start planning for the new school year. It seems to take them half the summer to decompress and unwind from school stresses and then we have to start all over again. This has been a good week though and we are going to concentrate on that. I took the kids to Old Sturbridge Village. I took…
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Books I…Strongly Dislike
I almost wrote “hate” but early conditioning kept telling me I couldn’t say that. Does anyone else remember the teachers who wouldn’t let you use the word hate? “No” they would say “you don’t really hate squash, you strongly dislike it.” Huh, really? I think I hate it. Anyway, I still feel bad about using the word so we are going with “books I strongly dislike.” Though, I must admit, immediately after having read them I would have said hate. I am not talking about books that are poorly written. I usually cannot work up a good hate for a book that is not well-written and does not have possibilities.…
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A Walk By The River
It has been hot, the kind of hot where you step outside and it feels like you are stepping into a steam bath. The kind of hot where iced tea and ice cream seem like necessary adjuncts to everyday life. The kind of hot where pools are not refreshing because the water has warmed up so much. The kind of hot where you are grumpy for a large majority of the time. Just me? I hope not. I hate heat. My husband, in a bid to save me and my family from my grumpiness, suggested I take my camera up to the river and ignore the world for a while.…
