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My daughter, who is in eighth grade concert choir, had to perform last night. It was worth 250 points on her grade. Not going meant she would fail. This applied to all four choirs that performe...

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There are TWO reasons for 'catching cold', according to Maman. The first is determined by whether or not you went to bed wearing undies. If not, you were bound to 'catch your death'. It was such ...

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She is crying. Crying because my daughter sat next to me on the love seat. That spot belongs to Beth, our German Shepherd. When we failed to acknowledge her perceived injustice, she went keeni...

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Beth: I need to go potty. Me: No you don't. Beth: I do. I do. I really do. Me: Beth, I JUST took you out. Beth: :hunching at the back door: Me: aw, c'mon! Shit,Beth. Wait..no! No!! Dammit...

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Because of a financial gift I received from my boss, I am going to do something completely unprecedented. Something totally frivolous, steeped deep in vanity, and more expensive that it ought to...

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Though Canadian blood runs through these veins, I suck at cold weather. Once we drop below 50 degrees, I'm done for. One thing that hasn't changed, however, is this ingrained tradition of stock...

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A friend of mine, who has poise and grace, let her hair do as it would, and has gone completely white. She carries it off quite well. In fact, I'm a bit envious, and am now considering doing th...

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We adopted Bethsheba, our German Shepherd, January of this year. At the time, she was just a little over 11 months of age. Our original intent when we went to this breeder, was to purchase a pu...

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Apparently, my dog (and only mine) experiences cramps during estrus. She is currently on pain medication. I have noticed, however, that she is more prone to groaning and looking all morose when...

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I have twenty-million of those! The one that immediately springs to mind would have to be September 12th, 1999. It was the fourth day after my daughter's birth, and I had yet to touch her. Oh, ho...

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The outdoor cats are loving the new garden. It has everything! A fountain, benches, and camouflage corners, PLUS it is near to the back door and a walkway, making it a convenient spot to engag...

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Daisies..... A horrible person he was, my father. A womanizer. A shirker of parental responsibility. Given that we were an entire country away, there really was no way for us to know otherwi...

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I am usually quite bored by white flowers, but I have to say my Moon Flowers have really piqued my curiosity. There is a luminescence borrowed, no doubt, from its namesake. Each giant flower b...

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I am disturbed. I live on a quiet, country road -no traffic except for the residents of 8 homes. When the headlights shone in my living room window. I immediately peered out the window. There ...

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This is on my way home from work today. After the day I had yesterday, I was fully prepared for this pastoral setting. A visit the the City River Market had me seeing spots! And this is my ...

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For those of you who don't know me - the past two entries were written with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek. I find humor in the potentially offensive - and just have to share. Often, I fi...

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The more I try, the more I can't. Or something like that. Yesterday was 'new pants' day for daughter and me. Being the teenager she is, she tried on about 649,112 pairs before she decided she ...

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According to my recent blood work, I have arrived. With her unsettling, cheery-person, morning voice, she practically exclaimed, "You are post-menopausal." "What?" I gulped and sputtered my ...

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A roof, this time! This time I parked properly on the property, and was met by the owner, who pulled up behind me. After asking permission. I was off! This time, I got the roof and everything!...

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So, I take a different way home from the lab, today - and I pull to a stop, where I'm faced with this barn. So, what do I do? I get out of my car to take the shot. The sun was blinding me, and...

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I am not usually a huge fan of sunflowers. They represent bat-shit crazy heat, which I can live without. But on my way to work, I caught a glimpse of cornflower blue (one of my favorite colors)...

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*Direct from the mouths of many - my story is hardly unique! *Discovering that what I had mistaken as brokenness is actually recognized as strength, and that I am in a good place. *Seeing small...

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How Kansas can it get?! Argiope -her's is the ONLY species I can appreciate. I actually think she's beautiful, and I am SO not a spider person. Neighbor has this awesome rose bush. Couldn'...

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The teacher - civilian or nun, I can't recall, introduced us to a little boy named Diamond who lived 'At the Back of the North Wind' (by George MacDonald). I remember gazing unseeingly out th...

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That normal dogs howl at sirens, and mine barks like she'd chew through chain-link fencing just to chase the unseen source of that sound? Why is it that,in all her German Shepherdness, she won'...

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