Can I get the “Yes Mom” app at the ipod App store?

March 22, 2011

Yesterday, I shopped real and virtually.  My kids, after raking in a ton of cash from their birthdays saving for months and months, finally had the money to shell out for an ipod touch (each).  Upon leaving Best Buy with my credit card still smoking ipods, cases and screen protectors,  my boys were onto their […]

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Handling unkind comments

March 21, 2011

As someone who writes on a public platform, I understand that negative comments are just part of blogging.  Not everyone will agree with my opinion or think what I’ve written is funny or even appropriate for that matter. I have been lucky enough so far that my readers have been supportive and encouraging.  This feeling […]

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Virtue’s duty

March 19, 2011

  With regal petals to prove its faithfulness Violet grants a light scent so one can taste its sweetness The virtue of the violet can be matched by your own You greet me on your doorstep and perceive me reappearing You close the door but I never step away I am waiting amongst the violets […]

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I’ll take a love letter over a love text any day.

March 15, 2011

I have written and received hundreds of letters in my life.  As with the jotters, these letters create a history and time line that help me remember who I was, what I did and who I loved.   I keep these letters in a trunk and have not looked at most of them since they […]

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The Jotter Pages….Beware on the sleeper train

March 6, 2011

The Jotter Pages posts are a glimpse into one of my many notebooks.  The italics are the actual writings from my jotter.  The roman type  are my comments today.  This entry takes place on a sleeper train from Paris, France to Florence, Italy on October 5, 1984. _________________________ Rain.  The train arrived today almost 1/2 […]

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