Archive for January, 2004
Friday Five
In: Blog
31 Jan 2004the friday five You have just won one million dollars: 1. Who do you call first? Barb 2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself? A car 3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else? Clothes for Robby 4. Do you give any away? Of course 4a. If yes, to [...]
Young love
In: Journal
29 Jan 2004Her name is E. and she’s 16. She homeschools and lives about half a mile from here. They’ve spent every spare minute together since they first got together last weekend. The other night when he came home, he sat there with a sappy look on his face and said, “Mom, I’ve never been this happy.” [...]
George Orwell
In: Quotes
27 Jan 2004A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that [...]
Fresh, home-made bagels
In: stuff
25 Jan 2004All about bagels — plus a recipe for making them yourself. Yum.
It was a bright, shining moment…
In: Blog
25 Jan 2004…and now it’s over. Once I had an errand boy, a teenager to go to the store whenever I asked, but no more. He has a girlfriend. Sounds like, “We have liftoff,” doesn’t it? Well, it kinda feels like that too. My baby boy, about to turn 16 next week, has his first girlfriend. We [...]
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