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Tips for a Happy Marriage
Today is our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. I thought about putting up a picture from our wedding but my husband is a private person and wouldn’t want that so you will just have to imagine it. If you picture me with a perm and wearing a gown with a big bow in the back you will be right on target. In my defense, everyone had perms in 1990 and all wedding gowns had huge bows. So, how have we stayed married for twenty-five years, you ask? (Let’s just pretend you want to know because I want to talk about it. That is how this blogging thing works.) So here are my…
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Yesterday, When I Was Young
I looked in the mirror yesterday and saw my mother looking back at me. It was horrifying. Not because I hate my mother, I hasten to add, but because my mother is older and I am young. Or so I thought until I looked in the mirror last night. I turned 45 this month (anyone who thought they were reading a blog written by someone young and cool, I am sorry.) and I think the problem is that in my head I am still in my mid-twenties. Sometimes I find myself talking to people in that age group and I feel like I fit in until I look around and…
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More About Me
Because, let’s face it, I blog because I want a place to talk about me. Well, I am kind of joking but not really. This is my place to be me, to write my thoughts, and to ramble on aimlessly when I feel like it, but a little more information about me might be nice. I think all you know about me so far is that I love books, I have a husband and children, and I am going to London in April. (Hurray! I will mention that at every opportunity. Sorry.) That doesn’t really tell you much though, does it? So here are the first few facts about me…
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The Olden Days
My daughter and I were eating lunch together the other day when she looked at me and asked, “Wouldn’t you like to know what a typewriter sounds like, Mom? I would.” I’ll let that sink in for a minute. Yes, the current generation has never heard the sound of typewriter keys. Maybe that shouldn’t surprise me, but it does. I told her I knew exactly what a typewriter sounds like, I used to use one. And that is when she told me that it wasn’t possible for me to know that because typewriters are from the olden days. I told her that the obvious conclusion is that I am from…
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Never Enough
Sometimes you can feel like you are doing it all and it is still never enough. Maybe it is just a side affect of having kids. They take you for granted. Mom always does it. Mom takes care of it. Mom is just silly when she worries about that. Maybe that last one is the one that bothers you right now. You feel like you can never get the balance quite right. You know you are a worrier and you know sometimes it can get to be a bit much. But that does not mean that your worrying is never justified. This world is crazy and life is crazy and…
