Category: Meandering Musings
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Ordinary Time
My daughter was telling me how she was learning about Semana Santa (Holy Week in Spain) at school. This left me pondering how eventful Holy Week was when I was a kid, growing up Catholic. The big countdown to Easter, full of drama. Easter, the biggest day on the Church’s calendar, forget about Christmas. The…
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The End of the Innocence
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Adventure Is Out There
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Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming (Almost)
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It’s Too Late, Baby
You probably saw the Facebook meme before the election that compared Hillary and Donald to feuding divorcing parents, and the voters to the kids that just wanted to go live with Grandma. Actually, I’ve decided, it’s the voters that need to get divorced. “Can This Country Be Saved?” No, I no longer think so. We’ve…
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Time Can’t Wash Us Off
Sitting here eating a homemade muffin filled with homemade strawberry jam. “Did you grow the strawberries yourself?” wondered my mom when I gave her some of the muffins. Well, no, but they were Jersey strawberries. A little bit of June in November. Here’s the recipe. I cranked these out yesterday because I was bound and…
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All Around the Mulberry Bush
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Blah Humbug
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Notes from a Deck
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The Secret House