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Sometimes love is not enough . . . | catsandnewspapers
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February 21, 2012. Sometimes love is not enough . . . A couple of friends think I’ve been a little harsh in my disgust with Whitney Houston. Yes, I may have referred to her as a “crack whore.” And that was not nice, and probably not even true. So for that, I am sorry. The media coverage is the thing that has probably disturbed me the most, with her funeral being shown live in so many TV markets and her photo gracing the cover of many magazines and newspapers. Was it news? We were a lucky family. Dad ...
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January 6, 2014. I’ve lost count of the number of times when, after hearing about a teenage driving tragedy, I’ve said piously, “That’s the thing about young people they think they are immortal; they never believe it will happen to them.”. There needs to be a new category of people who are just as idealistic, naive, blissfully ignorant “who think it will never happen to them” employees over 50. But in the last couple of decades, the situation has changed. There are very few lifers in lifetime jobs...
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October | 2011 | catsandnewspapers
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Monthly Archives: October 2011. October 31, 2011. Welcome to married life; the weather is likely to be unpredictable. My very beautiful niece, Meighan, got married on Saturday in Rye, NY. She and her new husband, Ralph, planned a late fall wedding with an autumnal menu, leaves and sunflowers in the decor, and the venue, an elegant old mansion attached to a Greek Orthodox Church, offered a picture-perfect stone patio where the vows would be pronounced at dusk. John Lennon noted that “Life is what ha...
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July | 2011 | catsandnewspapers
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Monthly Archives: July 2011. July 28, 2011. My favorite blogger (ess). She never fails to make me laugh. And I want to meet Victor desperately. July 22, 2011. Lifestyles of the out-of-touch. It’s no surprise to anyone when. The New York Times. Celebrates hedonism, consumerism or just plain excess in its pages, right? 8220;Pre-fab” models can go as high as $200,000, but most of these clueless folks went higher. A Houston oil company exec (wonder why our gas prices are so high? Look no further than this gu...
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Danny Boy | catsandnewspapers
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February 21, 2013. Never once during all those long, sleepless nights 17 years ago did I imagine I’d be faced with this reality. Daniel was the “easy” baby. Unlike his colicky older sister, he slept longer, more deeply and woke with a smile. On the nights when he needed a little extra soothing after a feeding or a change, or when teething or a temp left him fussy, I’d sit in the rocking chair in his darkened room, singing softly to him until he fell back to sleep. And I’m flummoxed. I was the smartass co...
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August | 2012 | catsandnewspapers
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Monthly Archives: August 2012. August 26, 2012. Cincinnati’s most popular religion, practiced on Friday nights. Contrary to demographic studies, Catholicism is not the predominant religion in Cincinnati. Friday night football is. Who cares. Not Cincinnatians. Enter the Bronx girl. God has a really interesting sense of humor, doesn’t he? As senior year of high school approached, youngest child decided that four years of watching football from the band section was enough. He wanted to don the jersey an...
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April | 2012 | catsandnewspapers
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Monthly Archives: April 2012. April 13, 2012. A little more Mr. Darcy, please. Young women today want to be unlike the way they are. And they are really much more interested in men who are not like most men today. It’s a natural conclusion to draw after after reading. Series. Bella and Katniss are self-sacrificing young women who suffer for the people they love. They do their utmost to protect family and friends, even at possible cost of their own lives. Is this why we like these characters? Because they...
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Adventures in travel, music, and ministry. Archive for the ‘ministry’ Category. I am diving into a three-year course of study through Formation in Direction, FIND. First assignments have us plunging into both eastern and western Christian spirituality, and into personality types (beginning with our own). The Cloud of Unknowing. Written by an anonymous Christian mystic in 14th century England, captures the state of my progress. Whatever I thought I knew about God, the unknowable. Where FIND will take me.
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Adventures in travel, music, and ministry. Posts tagged ‘culture’. A friend and I enjoyed lunch together at Sweetish Hill. It’s a bakery and restaurant that was located originally in East Austin where Swedish immigrants established residence many years ago. Now it’s on West 6th Street. We talked about all sorts of things just to get to know each other. Among the topics she brought up are the traumatic moments in most of our lives:. Birth (where am I? What’s going on here? Failure to get that degree?
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Life and Loss | KaleidoscopE
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Adventures in travel, music, and ministry. July 15, 2015. A friend and I enjoyed lunch together at Sweetish Hill. It’s a bakery and restaurant that was located originally in East Austin where Swedish immigrants established residence many years ago. Now it’s on West 6th Street. We talked about all sorts of things just to get to know each other. Among the topics she brought up are the traumatic moments in most of our lives:. Birth (where am I? What’s going on here? Failure to get that degree? These crises ...
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