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The button jar

January 2, 2010

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One of the day’s errands involved returning many overdue books to the library in Central Lake.  A bonus was discovering the current showcase exhibit: a button collection.  Buttons in jars, buttons in a box that had held lavendar soaps, buttons sewed onto patchwork angel wings . . . I was completely captivated. My mother kept […]

Not to complain or anything, but where’s the snow?

January 2, 2010

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For two days the Weather Widget and the radio news reporters have been predicting that we will have ten inches of new snow by this afternoon.  So for two days I’ve stayed pretty close to home, puttering around, walking the dogs, gazing into the fire, catching up on my reading, cooking—Me!  Cooking!—waiting for the snow […]

People, people – it’s only a number!

January 1, 2010

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As a culture we tend to obsess about Significant Milestones.  The passing of a year, a decade, a century.  (Remember Y2K hysteria?)  When you  come right down to it, as we always do, all the numbers are arbitrary.  Calendars are the creations of human beings, not Mama Nature.  She does things in her own good […]

The joy of flying and a dishwasher in the snow: A bang-up end to the year

December 30, 2009

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Everyone else is doing high-minded year-end lists of favorite posts and outstanding photos and I—well, I am going to break out of my rut.  No tales of Miss Sadie and the Cowboy.  No hike in the woods or photos of the lake.  I’m going to tell you about the dishwasher in the snow and the week I […]

Postcard from Holladay

December 26, 2009

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I have been mysteriously silent, eh? That is because I was imprisoned in large aircraft and bereft of internet access. However, in due course I was released on probation, whisked off to a house full of excellent treats, and stuffed like a goose. Everything is simply wonderful–did I mention the house is equipped with wireless […]

The Dream lives

December 21, 2009

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In 1959 Helmy El-Sherif left Alexandria, Egypt, to study engineering at Michigan State University.  On December 21 he arrived on Pier 44 in New York City.  His great love affair with America began.  He got on a bus and made a long ride through the wintry landscape, fetching up on the campus in East Lansing.  “I […]

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