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Friday Night Fever

I received an email flier a while back from my pal betty who you met in past entries Before The House Comes Down and Odds, Ends and Friends.  The email invited us to a concert to benefit The Guild for Exceptional Children, a … Continue reading

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Extra Super Sunday

Back in January, Husband was given complimentary tickets to a private showing down in the Village for an independent film with an original premise.  The film is called Praying with Lior, and it’s about a charismatic youngster with Down Syndrome … Continue reading

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Keep Moooving

To give a quick review, I enrolled in a two-year associate degree program a year ago.  It is a specialized school for learning a very complex language and the specific means of interpreting it (related entries are categorized under Skool … Continue reading

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The Haunting

I sometimes hear from amused readers after a post where Son cracks wise like in the recent Cool Customers and earlier entries What You Get For What You’ve Got and That’s The Word On The Street.  Maybe people are reminded of their own kids or … Continue reading

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Cool Customers

This past Monday was Martin Luther King Day so we weren’t back in school until Tuesday at which time we discovered that the school’s ancient furnace had malfunctioned over the weekend and it went unnoticed until the administration showed up … Continue reading

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I Sneeze, I Cough, I Spy

Before we left on our Christmas cruise, I came down with a really crappy cold as you may recall from Meet Me In The Clubhouse.  I felt almost recovered on our trip and I made a conscious effort not to complain … Continue reading

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I’ll Be Seeing You

This past Friday I met Daughter in the city at her eye doctor’s office.  The day she had planned for, saved for, done research for and kept her contact lenses out for had arrived.  It was a day she had … Continue reading

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Still Funny After All These Years

It’s the middle of January and I’m late passing these on but now that you’re settled in, here are George Carlin’s New Rules for 2008.  They were sent to me by correspondent Blondie and I’ve since seen them attributed to other … Continue reading

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Comfort Zone

While Husband and I were on our Christmas cruise to Mexico, our twenty-something-year-old kids from my first marriage were back in the US of A doing whatever it is they do whether we’re in the same country as them or … Continue reading

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Beyond the Sea

Husband and I have taken a handful of cruises in the seven years we’ve been married and one of the highlights for us is always the people we meet at dinner.  We let the cruise line assign us to a … Continue reading

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