Archive for September 2012
one great dame
This is my Aunt Pat, holding my younger Mom in a grim (but loving, I’m sure) hug. Auntie is the person that passed away at the end of the summer. She was my only aunt (dad was a singleton), and she took her familial job joyfully and seriously, in equal measure. She cultivated deep and…
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This goes against what I normally do, but I am ordering an iPhone 5. And I’m blogging about it. I feel as though I deserve this phone, in this weirdo shiny consume-consume world. I’ve been “suffering” with my “old” phone for “way too long.” About the minute that I found that I qualified for a…
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My sister Ann’s been in town. She came out from Massachusetts, first to be with family in Northern California then down to be with me. Even though the trip was unexpectedly sudden and made because of sad circumstances, it is always, always wonderful to have her here. She and I have not lived geographically close…
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