Calling home

August 27, 2011
My mother would have been 86 years old today. This is a piece I sold to Skirt! magazine in 2003. It's right on theme with my trip down Memory Lane. To my mother: still...
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Looking back, aging + …skin care? Yes.

August 26, 2011
Here's a little side trip; back to the Memory Lane series tomorrow and if you haven't, see post from earlier today. As I look back on the tales I'm blogging about...
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The surburbs – fourth in the series

August 26, 2011
We soon outgrew the apartment on Lancraft Street and moved to Irondequoit, a suburb just a couple miles from it. It was full of first generation American families making...
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skin

August 23, 2011
Busy. We're all busy. It's hard to find time to do all the important things on our to-do list, so taking care of ourselves tends to fall to the bottom with a big...
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Bloghopping today

August 23, 2011
I love finding new blogs. Participating in blog hops is an interesting way to do it. So, thought I'd give it a try. Something new So, I'm guest host today for a...
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Going home – first in a series

August 23, 2011
I've lived away for my entire adult life, so I don't know what it's like to live as a grown-up around immediate and extended family. In some ways it's made me the odd...
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Creating family

August 22, 2011
"Family trumps everything" A favorite writer, Lolly Winston, posted this quote (by author Anna Quindlen) as her Facebook update last month. And here are a few of the...
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Flowers & squirrels; beauty & stupidity

August 22, 2011
Life on the central coast is full of little surprises.Vivid colors dot the grey coast overcast like little wrapped presents. I love wildflowers. Everything grows so well...
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Looking for an echo

August 21, 2011
My thoughts on birthdays are simple: they're better than the alternative. Still, my birthday last month was a hard one. One during which mortality and I had a...
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Thoughts on the news

August 20, 2011
In the world we live in, we can not let our kids out of your sight for a moment, because bad people lie in wait everywhere, even on the normal childhood event of a...
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