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Bad haircut
I routinely trim my son’s hair – especially in the front – as it tends to grow very quickly and prone to get into his eyes. This last time I wanted to clean up the tufts around the ears and miss-snipped and found myself staring at a bald circle. Sure – I could’ve left it…
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It’s what you know
(And just one more reason to mind what you put in- on – around – your being ) I’ve been thinking about potty training and so I asked the library clerk if there were any toddler books on the subject – admitting my cluelessness. As she went to fetch those – a mother, whom had…
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Pickled
We were at the grocery store and there was a pyramid of sugary name brand cereals on display. My son, George reached for one of the more brightly colored boxes emblazoned with a collection of animated figures. Out of curiosity- I read the long list of ingredients and thought; this type of aggressive marketing-aimed at children…
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Are your ears working
It’s been raining a lot recently -as is the norm in April. So we’ve been spending more time at the library and- I’ve been reading the second book in a trilogy by Philip K Dick – of which, he wrote towards the very end of his life . I won’t get into the details of…
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Honey baby
This past week – I’ve had a lot of inner hostility and- have repeatedly looked ahead to imagined outcomes of would-be scenarios between my husband and I. These imagined scenarios would typically end in a quarrel and – like in a dream – I would be swept up and become upset. One could surely describe this…