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The Norfolk Incident revisited

Posted on March 19, 2010 by onesanevoice

In honor of today being Son’s 26th birthday, I am reprinting a newspaper column I wrote about him 14 years ago.  The subject is dated now, but back in the mid-90s it was something many parents struggled with. March was … Continue reading →

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Lobby Tales

Posted on March 15, 2010 by onesanevoice

While we were down in Florida visiting my hospitalized father-in-law, we stayed at our favorite Hampton Inn with its lightning fast wireless Internet service and free tasty breakfast.  One of us rocks the early evening manager’s reception complete with complimentary … Continue reading →

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All the Right Moves

Posted on March 11, 2010 by onesanevoice

We just went down to Florida to be with Husband’s 89-year-old father who took a spill while out shopping.  Seems he was in the parking lot of Best Buy where he went to check out the latest flat screen monitors … Continue reading →

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Wash & Rinse, Lock & Load

Posted on March 7, 2010 by onesanevoice

I feel no end of amused affection for the male approach to domesticity.  Unless you’re married to Bobby Flay, guys tend to have a stranger in a strange land thing going on in the kitchen that actually serves them well … Continue reading →

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It’s a team thang

Posted on March 7, 2010 by onesanevoice

Working together is on my mind lately, beginning with a group activity in my online History of Math class.  Neither history nor math ever rang my bell in school before, but going back to college in my fifties has taught … Continue reading →

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Zip it

Posted on February 27, 2010 by onesanevoice

I read Husband a story this morning from the paper that cemented the end of another era in my memory, that of the doctor who makes house calls.  The piece was about the passing of an 84-year-old area physician who … Continue reading →

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The Doonesbury Paradigm

Posted on February 23, 2010 by onesanevoice

I came of age with Doonesbury.  Garry Trudeau’s comic strip debuted in 1970, the year I turned sixteen amid the country’s involvement with the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, women’s rights, and social activism.  For the first time in the nation’s … Continue reading →

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Sophisticated times

Posted on February 19, 2010 by onesanevoice

The past couple of weeks have found me in a major rally to beat this nasty bug that has me lagging behind in my work and play.  At home more than I’d like to be with a less than sharp … Continue reading →

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By the time I got to Woodstock

Posted on February 15, 2010 by onesanevoice

This past weekend was the first annual Woodstock Writers Festival, an event I bought a pass to way back when I was feeling totally healthy and not slinking around with this disgusting whatever it is I have and can’t get … Continue reading →

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Familiar strangers revisited

Posted on February 11, 2010 by onesanevoice

I’m sick with something miserable this week so please accept a reprint of an entry that ran in the winter of 2007.  Daughter’s pictures are new, but the entry and the memory it recalls are gently used. Today as I … Continue reading →

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