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Turning My Face to the Sun

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We’ve had several days of gray and rain rain rain, but today the sun is shining from a clear blue sky.Â The trees are blazing in reds and yellows, looking like miniature suns themselves, and I’m thinking about sun worship. Days like this, it’s easy to see how and why itÂ came to be.Â The sun

Dividing Up the Halloween Spoils

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Every year the kids come home from tramping the neighborhood with a mother-load of candy.Â Since they’re young, cute, and smileÂ brightly, they seem to suck candy to them like magnets to metal. If they’re to avoid showing offÂ bright smiles to the dentist as he drills their mouths full of holes something has to be done

Daylight Saving Deja Vu

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We had friends drop in for a quick visit this weekend.Â We hadn’t seen them for awhile so the conversation last night was going a mile a minute and doing double duty. Around midnight we discussed styles of fiction writers andÂ compared books we’d been reading.Â Around 1:00 am we talked of art and decor, and

Halloween Candy on Parade

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My daughterÂ chose aÂ candy corn costume for Halloween, and planned to wear it in herÂ preschool Halloween parade today. But yesterday when she told the kids what she wouldÂ wear, they said that sounded yummy–and apparently some of them were quite convincing.Â She came home worried. Â Â Â Â “Mom,” she said.Â “The kids say they’re going to eat my

The Appetizing Aroma of Blue Macaroni

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My mom loved to change things up for dinner on Halloween.Â She’d dye the macaroni blue, let the celery suck up some red into its veins, and give us green butter for our bread.Â We all thought it was pretty cool, but we didn’t eat much.Â After reading this info on Color Matter, I’m thinking

Year of the Dragon

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According to the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, people (like myself) born in the year of the dragon are: healthy, energetic, excitable, short-tempered, and stubborn. (okay, all true so far)Â They are also honest, sensitive, brave, and they inspire confidence and trust. (hmmm . . . hoping so) Dragon people are the most eccentric

A Determined Ferret Thief

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We’ve got family, friends, and the rest ofÂ the known universe dropping in for a visit over the next month, so we decided to clean the house.Â This is not a regular event around here, you must understand.Â We keep the place reasonably clean–you won’t find anything dangerous or disgusting left out, the dishes get done,

Singing the Soccer Blues

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Both the kids had games this morning.Â The daughter’s at 9:00am, the son’s at 10:00, so both of them needed to be ready to roll by 8:30ish, and if it was up to me they’d have been practicingÂ as well.Â But these are kids we’re talking about, and not terribly ambitious kids, either.Â I put thoughts

Comic Characters

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All the kiddie costumes coming out for Halloween have got me thinking.Â What would it be like to be, or live the life, of one of these comic figures?Â And if you had to choose just one to be the rest of your life, who would you choose?Â The elusive Batman?Â Tough as nails Wolverine?Â

Yesterday’s Ravens