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Webcam Schmebcam
In jest, one of the members of the Board of Directors where I work teased that the organization should set up a webcam to watch what I really do on days when I work from home. There is no need to go to all that trouble. Beginning at 9:00 a.m., I open the door to several of the U.S. National Park ...
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Imagine A World
Last night The Rooster announced that no one in her class likes the color pink. "But that’s crazy," I said. "Imagine the world without pink!" "There wouldn't be any pink in the sky during sunrise or sunset!" "Imagine a world without pink lemonade or baby piglets!" The Mayor and The Rooster ...
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Obligatory Postween Photos
Between the Halloween Candy Buy Back Program and the age-old Inter-Sibling Trade Negotiations, I had an hour off this morning! There must be something wrong with my children though... all the chocolate candy is in the bag for the soldiers and they only kept the sour, gummy, odd things. [Suddenly ...
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Capacitación en la Diversidad
Last night The Rooster chose Maria Shriver's book called " What's Wrong With Timmy ?" as a bed time story. The book's intent is to help kids understand that some children live with disabilities. The book primarily focuses on the strengths of children with special needs and how much we all have ...
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Turn, Turn, Turn?
We have this book... It has amazing illustrations, each page from the artistic style of a different culture. I don't quite know what to say or how to explain the book to The Mayor and The Rooster though. Oh, Biblical Scholars of the Internet, por favor esplain to me the larger meaning of ...
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Trigger
Last Friday I took The Mayor for a hearing test. It's been eight months since his ear surgery and despite the slicing and peeling off of the ear , problems persist. The Mayor's ear drum is retracting again and the ear is filled with fluid. His hearing test results show an arc of hearing loss ...
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Watching You
My Aunt Nancy received an unexpected messaged when she and I sat together in the family consultation room at Duke University Hospital. My Granny had been in an awful car accident . She was transferred to Duke and, ultimately, attached to a ventilator. My Aunt pulled a sealed envelope from her ...
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