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  • Trying to catch up I've been trying to make sense out of the mess that is my world right now. Apparently, I've missed more than I thought I did, and people are unhappy with me for commitments that I forgot to cancel …
  • Fired up I just came home from a very scary Girl Scout meeting. This past weekend was a big camping trip for the troop, one that I didn't attend because I was with my sister. Apparently it didn't go well at all. Ther…
  • Wish My sister and I spent the weekend together, and it was not one of our better weekends. I think part of the problem was that my sister wanted to talk about our father, and I couldn't manage it in the right way at a…
  • Flower frenzy I can't believe how many perennials are popping up in my garden. First there were daffodils, then tulips and crocuses, then the large rangy forsythia spewed forth in a fountain of gold. The cherry trees …
  • Sympathy (not available at this address) I talked to my mother tonight about my sister. I couldn't talk to my sister, because I don't know where she is, and when I dial her cell phone number, it doesn't ring, it just s…
  • Unfinished business My sister called earlier. She and her lifelong friend T___ had cleared out my father's trailer, salvaging everything worth keeping and getting rid of everything else. My sister was at my brother's …
  • Crucifying Gordon Gordon performed in his Living stations of the Cross today. Basically, all he had to do as Jesus is look tortured and miserable, which is not even acting for a 14 year old boy. He also happened to be…
  • Gefilte fish PapajohnM asks if there really is whole ground fish in gefilte fish. I am told that historically there is, bones and heads and tails (but not the guts), and that it is religiously symbolic too. I think it…
  • Passover state of mind Right now my kids and I are preparing the house for Passover. For the kids, this means coloring the pages in the coloring books that I bought for the occasion. This particular coloring book is p…
  • Not there My sister went to take care of my father's things, and I didn't. I really didn't want to, and my sister was nice enough to give me an out. So, I've stayed here and did the mommy things I do. My sister calle…
  • Invited This is an actual email that I received this morning. It startled me, because it was forwarded from my father's email address (but my sister is at my father's house, I'm sure she is the one who sent it along), …
  • Contact I called my brother and told him about my father. It was strange and nice, he started immediately reminiscing about some nice memories he had about our father when we were little. There were things like the ca…
  • Sudden course change I was feeling a lot of stress this week with all the things that were going on in my house. I really didn't want to deal with my father's ailments too. Now things have flip-flopped. My father has…
  • Charoset It is hard to find recipes for charoset, because no one can agree on the spelling. It is a hebrew word, and there isn't a straight phonetic transliteration. I recognize what it is if I see it, but I could spe…
  • Keeping in touch This evening I got a call from a neighbor of my father's. She has never met me or spoken to me, but she felt that this was important, so she got phone numbers from my father and called me to let me kno…
  • Smaller portions, please! I went to another ren faire practice today, or at least I did for half a day. If I were willing to make the full commitment, I would be giving up every Saturday and Sunday from 9 to 6 for 4 so…
  • No spring The weather went straight from winter to summer. Earlier this week we had snow, and now it is up in the eighties. I took Ben to the playground for a while, but that didn't work out as well as I hoped. The p…
  • Don't wanna be a fool My children are psyched for April Fool's Day. I'm not sure what evil they intend, but I know their minds are churning. This morning, Sophia asked me for some vaseline. I asked her if she was goi…

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