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    what an apt description–I know that feeling too! Like thumbing the wheel of a lighter when there’s not enough fuel…

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    I do enjoy each obsession as it’s upon me… But I will say that some of them are more USEFUL…

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  • Contest Contribution: “Christmas Memory with Mother”

    This little-bit is in response to fellow blogger, Things I Want to Tell My Mother, who posted a contest (challenge?) to share a Christmas memory of your mother in just 100 words…  Check out her post and jump in with YOURS–you have till December 5 to contribute.  So, 100 words exactly: Some Christmas memories of…

  • In the Market for a Maker

    “Get a God,” I hear repeatedly in the rooms of A.A. “If you don’t get God… You’re wrecked. Your own ‘best thinking’ got you here, so you’d better get God and follow directions.” I’m told my God can be anything, anything at all with power higher than my own—“hell, even a doorknob,” an old-timer smirks,…

  • A Smashmatician Ponders Relative Time

    A Smashmatician Ponders Relative Time

    Galileo and Newton measured linear time with pendulums and water clocks—and that type of time measurement is one I can wrap my head around.  Einstein had more flexible ideas about time and relativity, and though I confess the physics of Einstein-time are fuzzier to me, there has to be something to it, just based on…

  • Amazing Grace, how sweet the SOUNDS

    Amazing Grace, how sweet the SOUNDS

      When my youngest daughter was born, I didn’t know if I’d get to keep her.  She arrived three months early, weighing in at just over two pounds, and I scrapped her intended middle name in favor of “Grace“–if she stayed with us, it would be entirely a matter of Grace.  In her three months…

  • Wearing a Party-Tail

    I was rummaging through some old notebooks today, trying to find the lyrics to a song we loved as kids–”If everybody had a tail and chose its shape and size“…  What I found instead was a pair of pages written about a decade ago, reflecting on the different personalities with which I seemed to write…

  • Adventures of The Spermudgeon & The Scribbler

    (If you didn’t guess from the title, there’s some adult-ish content here…  Just so you know.) You’ve no doubt already gathered that I get a kick out of teasing my husband about his age.  He’s wonderfully young at heart (and wonderfully good-humored about my endless ribbing)–and given that he was in college when I was…

  • Boxers & Blugs

    Boxers & Blugs

    I recently took the FaceBook quiz, “What kind of underwear are you?”  Please don’t ask me why I would do such a thing.  (Ironically, I hit cancel rather than let the results post to my FB page—because I didn’t want people to know I was so silly.  But here we are…) I’m sure you can…