If you’re lucky, life affords you a few moments when you feel as if you are exactly where you are…
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Thanksgiving
“Thanksgiving is really over,” my friend Patti wrote yesterday. “All that’s left are yams.” I know what she means. In…
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Dinner out
The year my mom turned sixty, my dad had the bright idea to whisk her off to a dental conference…
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Coyotes
If you live in the country, you know the sound: the high, frantic yipping and yowling of coyotes working themselves…
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A time for silence (and a tea recipe)
Before my son Henry flew back to Minnesota last week, I took him out shopping for vitamins. Last winter, temperatures…
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Not an ordinary day. . .
The young, enthusiastic crew arrived at nine am yesterday, right on time. Within minutes, our house was transformed into a…
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