Canned Laughter

My morning started with good intentions. I was up and at the computer first thing with the intention of writing the three or four posts I needed to crank out before I’ll be caught up. I thought I’d spend a quick 30 minutes noodling with my template, then get right to it. Six hours and [...]

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Sunday I made sandwiches for the soup kitchen.  I went to regular services and listened to a sermon on the parting of the Red Sea.  I took communion and prayed for my neighbors.  I was a dutiful and pious church lady.  And then, it happened.
Tucked in among the announcements in my church bulletin I found [...]

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At 9:00, I go get the stitches taken out. Since I presume there will be a long wait at Speed Doctor’s office, I went to the bookstore. I came home with Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon. It looked so yummy, I even paid full price. I hope it is a delectable [...]

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Please forgive my bloggy lapses of late. Best Boss Ever was in Switzerland for the past couple of weeks, so I’ve been super busy and frazzled from work. What an appalling state of affairs when I have to spend my time working rather than posting! Now, just because I haven’t been writing that doesn’t [...]

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Some children wish for wealth. Some children wish for beauty. I’m told some children even wish for world peace. Every birthday, every Christmas, every shooting star I wished for the same thing. I wished that I could sing.
On weekends my family would make a two hour drive to the shore [...]

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Would you believe that I, the queen of grace under fire (or the queen of ducking out of sight when anything unpleasant happens), have spent the last two days freaking out? Like my Nana Rosanadana used to say, “If it’s not one thing it’s another”.
Wednesday the kids brought home school progress reports. After much [...]

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Last Sunday our minister who is very fond of interactive sermons gave the congregation questionnaires. They were to determine what style of worship fits you best. There were four styles based upon your answers: the traditionalist who likes the order and discipline of traditional worship; the activist who doesn’t want to sit through a service [...]

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The annual church jumble sale is this weekend and I’ve spent the past two days baking cookies. Raspberry Almond Spritz cookies to be exact. Six batches. Strangely enough, last batch looked just as yummy to me as the first batch from the oven. Aren’t bakers supposed to become immune to the temptation when they smell [...]

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