Category Archives: All Things Considered

Baker’s Dozen Love Story

Posted on September 10, 2010 by onesanevoice

If you’ve had reason to redecorate in the past ten years, you may have noticed that the array of available colors has increased exponentially along with the variety of names those colors are called.  The wall of paint color strips … Continue reading →

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Race the Devil

Posted on July 16, 2010 by onesanevoice

Husband and I went to the funeral today of a good friend who should still be alive.  AJ was a vibrant, fun, athletic man with a great sense of humor and a wife who adored him.  Husband knew him almost … Continue reading →

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Be stand-up and be counted

Posted on June 21, 2010 by onesanevoice

The Census is winding down the door-to-door portion of its program, and I was just informed that my contract as a temporary employee has been extended.  I have no idea what the next phase will be – the government’s not confiding in … Continue reading →

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Have Faith

Posted on June 5, 2010 by onesanevoice

I never considered myself the type to have a personal fitness trainer.  I don’t know who exactly I envisioned as a candidate for one, outside of women in the Real Housewives strata and Linda Hamilton when she buffed up for Terminator 2.  I … Continue reading →

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At the sign post up ahead, the AARP Zone

Posted on May 4, 2010 by onesanevoice

I just cruised up to my 56th birthday, the sixes always seeming like the other side of a grandiose milestone.  Like the olive left in the bottom of a martini or the pie crust after all the filling is gone.  … Continue reading →

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TwentyTen

Posted on January 5, 2010 by onesanevoice

My two New Year’s resolutions are to exercise a half hour every day, and maintain my composure when retail customer service does not meet my expectations.  Like if the cashier won’t hang up the phone with her boyfriend, I will … Continue reading →

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Game Over

Posted on November 10, 2009 by onesanevoice

Along about Game 5 of this year’s World Series between the Yankees and the Phillies, my mind started to wander, and not just back to the Bronx for Game 6.  I got to thinking:  If Philadelphia’s team is called the … Continue reading →

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Boy Rides

Posted on March 29, 2009 by onesanevoice

Among the many things that men and women feel differently about, cars might just be at the top of the list.  Personal experience has shown me that women want cars to take them from one place to the other, while … Continue reading →

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Home Grown Pain

Posted on March 5, 2009 by onesanevoice

Events have been known to conspire in a way that bends our memory to their will.  Twenty years ago this week, an unspeakable murder took place in the quiet suburban town we had just moved into.  While Son and Daughter … Continue reading →

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Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like Hell

Posted on February 16, 2009 by onesanevoice

Back in the 2007 entry In Forward Motion, I wrote about my love/hate relationship with email forwards.  You can never tell how much truth is involved in them and how much urban legend.  For instance, anyone pushing thirty now who once … Continue reading →

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