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Happy Birthday, Maximus
Four years ago this weekend, somewhere in Texas, a black and white puppy squirmed into a cold, scary world. Not long after that, he found himself in a rural Texas kill-shelter. When we met him nine...
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Wax Paper
In my recent spate of pre-holiday baking, I’ve rediscovered wax paper. I’ve had a couple of rolls in the back of the pantry for a while, purchased because some recipe I was going to make at some point...
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Welcome to the Word Lounge (Version 2.0)
Last week, I wrote about some household Re-arranging we were doing. Today, I took pictures of my almost-finished Word Lounge (version 2.0). This post is image intensive, but I thought you might like a...
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Five Things I’m Not Going to Write About…Much
It’s 6:23 AM, and I’m awake, not because I’m grieving over yesterday’s shooting in Connecticut (though I am saddened by it), and not because I’m anticipating anything specific happening today (though...
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Dog Tired
It’s just after midnight in my time-zone, and I haven’t even done much all day – except drop off paperwork with the Shelter 2 Rescue folks (Dexter’s final paperwork from when he was adopted last...
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Little Church in Grand Prairie
This morning, Fuzzy and I visited a church we’ve driven by innumerable times since moving here eight years ago, but have never been in: St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church here in south Grand Prairie. The...
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I’m woefully behind in my blog, my book blog, and a Christmas project, and almost behind on work. Tomorrow, I’m staying home while my parents go out, so that I can finish what I need to with at least...
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Human Moments and High Percentage Choices
Sometimes leaving all of your visiting family at home and heading out to midnight mass is a high percentage choice. 2:00 AM. Christmas Morning. We arrived home from the late service at St. Alban’s at...
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Pay No Attention to the Chipped Nail Polish
Pay no attention to the chipped nail polish evident on my pinky. Instead, pay attention to the ring. My ring. My wonderful, silver, steaming-coffee ring. I’d seen it on Facebook months ago, as had my...
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Smells Like Anticipation
Well, Hello, December! It’s the first day of Holidailies and here I am typing as fast as I can so I can get this posted before midnight, and thus not fail on the first day, which would be really...
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Bread
So here I am, once again writing my Holidalies post at 11:50 pm. This is NOT the habit I wanted, this year. But this time I have a good excuse: I was at a meeting at church, part of the core group of...
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This is Your Brain on Ice
I lived in Colorado for seven years (on and off) and I never learned to ski, but I did learn to ice skate, and ever since my booted-and-bladed feet first touched ice, I’ve been in love with the sport....
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Peeling the Eggplant
We’ve all heard the story (possibly apocryphal, but it’s a good story so, who cares?) about the woman who was making a roast. Her daughter, watching her, asked, “Mom, why are you cutting the ends off...
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Happy Birthday, Maximus
Oh, my dearest doggy, you are FIVE years old today. That’s middle-aged for a breed like yours, a breed we think is pointer/boxer, but could be most anything, really. How well I remember that windy day...
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DFW on Ice
I’m posting at nearly-midnight again, but this time it’s because last nights sleet and freezing rain turned into this morning’s widespread power outages. Our power glitched for a minute or so around...
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Movie Musings
My friend and fellow Holidailies participant, The Mighty Kymm, tagged me on Facebook with the challenge to list – without thinking about it – ten movies that have stayed with you. I said I’d play, but...
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Snow Days
The past few days, with our neighborhood shrouded in ice and the air temperatures legitimately cold and not just “cold for Texas,” have felt like snow days, even though we don’t have kids and work...
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Do Androids Dream…
While I’ve been enjoying the new(ish) series “Almost Human,” for some reason, I can never remember the correct title. Most weeks, I just refer to it as, “the show with Karl Urban,” which, while...
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The Love/Hate of Holiday Rescue Memes
I’m not using a cute Santa picture tonight, even though my collection probably seems endless to people who don’t know me (and possibly to a few who do). Instead, I want to draw your attention to the...
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Bathtub Reading
I read a lot. I mean A LOT. I may review one or two books a week, but I read a bunch more than that. The bulk of what I read is catalogued over at my book blog. Anyway, Rob did a “ten books that have...
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