Monthly Archives: June 2004

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to baste the turkey and hide the kitchen knives.

My parents are visiting so it’s quite possible I may not be updating for a week or so. It all depends on how much time I spend with them and whether I have enough time to do the little tiny things that make me so happy. Like brushing my teeth and reading. So feel free [...]

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Trouble with a capital TROUB.

Chester made his first real foray into the world of crime last night. He has been charged with assault and attempted murder. Let me explain: Paul and I came back from doing laundry yesterday afternoon only to discover the fish tank had been knocked completely over, it was devoid of any water and poor little [...]

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Without the sun …

When I was very small, my mother used to be a volunteer at the Texas Tech University Planetarium. On occasion, in the middle of the week, she and I would head up to the Museum where she would routinely give planetarium shows to kindergartners and to second-graders on field trips. The only rules I had [...]

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Found!

Amanda isn’t missing anymore! Thank you, thank you, thank you to whomever or whatever reunited us.

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Brewed from the finest Columbian lighter fluid.

All day I’ve been craving coffee. Well, I’ve been craving my kind of coffee. Any coffee purist would tell you that the atrocious stuff I drink is more like coffee’s illegitimate second cousin twice removed. There are a few qualifications that make my coffee so horrible to the regular coffee drinker and especially to the [...]

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