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About Me

I'd rather be in the garden than anyplace else on earth, well unless there's a good shelling beach handy.Photobucket AlbumLayout made by Topangachick

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Ella Fitzgerald (wait a minute, she's dead), Benny Goodman, (oops, he's dead, too), Teddy Wilson(yup, dead), Jean Ritchie(hmmm.... now she might still be alive...)

My Blog

Rumination on being the parent of adult children

I find myself in an interesting place in life. One I quite like, actually. I am the parent of adult children. There are three of them. Two I gave birth to and diapered and breastfed and baked cupcakes...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:47:00 GMT

Guess it’s about time I said something else

One of my children is currently challenging me to take a hard look at reality as I know it. It is a totally justfied and very brave thing to do. It’s also scary as hell. Not scary from a persona...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:37:00 GMT

Why vote? Please listen to my reasons

 I am a child of the 60's and came of age in the 70's. I was raised to understand that it was my duty to vote. My parents were adament about it. I remember holding onto my mother's skirt in the p...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:28:00 GMT

Been a long time

Well, I haven't posted a blog in a while, not that anyone probably really cares. I usually have only mundane things to talk about, by many people's standards. Nothing political or philosophical. Mostl...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:13:00 GMT

Woo Hoo

Mary's now officially a member of the freshman class of the University of the South at Sewanee. Google it. The financial aid came through and the loan came through and the university is...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:09:00 GMT

Big 'Ol Change of Plans

Sometimes you have to look at something and say, "nope, nope, that's not working..." and backtrack. We had one of those last week so we're not going to Vermont after all, but headed to Sewanee ready t...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:52:00 GMT

Party

Wow, I had some time for a change over the last two days (heading to work in a few minutes). Just looked back over the blogs and realized we just had the party I wrote about almost 2 months ago. Not a...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:31:00 GMT

Insight and graduation

First of all, why do I always have to pick a font and size when I post a blog?  And why do I always have to pick a category? Nobody's gonna read this except people I know, anyway. Geez. That said...
Posted by on Sun, 20 May 2007 04:31:00 GMT

Last cookies

I've been a mom for 24 years. Been a Girl Scout troop leader, boxtops for education mom, band mom, I don't remember what else after all these years. My baby girl is graduating from high school on May ...
Posted by on Fri, 11 May 2007 05:08:00 GMT

Isn't it almost aways the garden(not this time)

Know why I always have the same music on my profile? I want to listen to Sam Bush at least once a day and I'm not tired of this particular song. Actually, I'm immersing myself in this song. I do that ...
Posted by on Wed, 09 May 2007 21:23:00 GMT