Chris and Sonny are off at the other end of I-75, unaccountably managing to have fun entirely without us. She writes: while we are here in Florida, I was reading your blog. [Well I should hope so–if I didn’t have a loyal following of snowbirds no one would want to look at my pictures of […]
It is possible that Traverse City is really a miniature big city masquerading as a small town.
Never mind, we’ll tell you. She writes, I’m not in Michigan this Sunday, but I am in Florence, Italy where my niece Cyndi completed her first marathon today. She did very well and did it in a little over four hours. My other niece Patti is here too and we are making a small vacation […]
Almost three years ago Joanna Hicks carted me off to a band concert over in Central Lake. It was a wonderful experience, and the next day I wrote a little post (Let there be music). The 6th Grade Band had been together for just 14 weeks, but everyone managed to get to the end together. […]
Yesterday, Thanksgiving Day, began with the usual rituals.
This has been an excellent day all the way around—a nice change from some of the others we've had lately. I could unreel it in any direction and enjoy it all over again. It seems worth remembering each of its pleasures, because I suspect there is some other day lurking out there in the dim future when I will need help remembering blessings to count.
November 30, 2011
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