Blogs pause, but life rarely does. How to catch up? Homecoming dances and choir concerts, soccer tournaments and family visits, lots of work, a good thing. Balloon Boy, a bad thing. An evil germ this week that had me searching a website on “Common Cold vs. Swine Flu – How to Tell the Difference.” An…
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First week on Weight Watchers, lost 3.9 pounds and I’m thinking very seriously of applying to be their spokeswoman. I mean, if Jared can do it for Subway . . . I am not a diet person, I mean, other than being born female which naturally predisposes me toward such things. In my first 40…
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Finished my class. Caught up with Michael Jordan’s Hall of Fame speech. Taped the Emmy’s, which I’ll never watch. Joining Weight Watchers tomorrow (are you required to tell them that you plan to stick around only until your pants aren’t so uncomfortable? Is there a special membership plan for this?) Of course, now I need…
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It’s the first day of the NFL season, I’m in Green Bay for the Bears’ opener, and I am thinking of my dad. It is nearly 80 degrees today, which would have made him very happy. I can’t remember ever going to a Bears game with my father when it was warmer than 34.  And…
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For homework in my Visual Storytelling class this weekend, I had to shoot and edit a 30-second video sequence. Took me, oh, about 15 hours. I know my husband Rick is reading this right now and going, “Uh, excuse me, it took you 15 hours?” OK, so he helped. But I should point out that…
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