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Today marks the five year anniversary of my friend’s death six weeks after having her baby.  It’s crazy to think she has 10- and  5- year old daughters and is not here to see them grow up.  I’m sure her older daughter’s heart aches for her mom and the little one has no idea what [...]

Where we live there is a chain of sporting goods stores called Chick’s.  Where we used to live there was a sporting good stores called Dick’s.  Recently Dick’s bought out Chick’s… let’s hear it for Chick’s with Dick’s! Anyway. Today just before I went into Petsmart and got suckered into a 20 gallon starter aquarium, [...]

I’ve written a few posts lately about my Facebook addiction.  It has brought so many old friends out of the woodwork and back into my life.  I’m in heaven!  I’ve caught up with a bunch of old gymnastics teammates from the 80s and we are starting to talk about a reunion.  It would be a [...]

We replaced our American flag tonight with a new one since the last one had grown shaggy from a late winter storm. We’d never had a flag before September 11, 2001. Due to the rush on flags and emotion and profound need to display patriotism in such a simple way following the attack on America, [...]