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The View from My Broom: March 2015
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The View from My Broom. Ruminations of a Crone. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. I was a young wife and stay-at-home-mom in the early 1970s. Like many women I collected Betty Crocker box tops from products I prepared and saved them to buy flatware. I still have come of those pieces, but 45 years of wear, garbage disposals, and moves means that there are a few key pieces left and our family went on to have a couple of other sets of flatware. I'd like to find a complete set of something that serves 8 and be done...
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The View from My Broom: September 2013
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The View from My Broom. Ruminations of a Crone. Tuesday, September 17, 2013. My husband Dave’s birthday is on or just after the first day of Fall. Perhaps that is why his mother began baking him plum sauce cake for a birthday cake. Certainly the cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves fill the house with an aroma that speaks Autumn’s name. I had planned to mail the cake there. Then Dave’s mother died on August 17. She’d been unwell for some time, but seemed to be coming back in inches. My four paled by comparison.
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The View from My Broom: Creating Home
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The View from My Broom. Ruminations of a Crone. Friday, April 17, 2015. While picking out flooring yesterday, I received a text from our realtor/friend Ada Williams saying that our "new" house had closed. Daughter-in-law Ana and Grandson Gabriel had accompanied Dave and myself to the house yesterday morning to meet Ada and get the keys to our new family kingdom. If you aren't familiar with Lumber Liquidators they are a no frills flooring outlet. Enough flooring for our two houses (we all decided on t...
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The View from My Broom: June 2013
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The View from My Broom. Ruminations of a Crone. Saturday, June 29, 2013. Grandma Frieze's Pineapple Cookies. My granddaughters are to coming to visit on Monday so I’m making paternal grandmother’s pineapple cookies. Going to visit Grandma Frieze meant pineapple cookies in the cookie jar. I have such lovely memories of visiting her that I want to create those same sorts of memories for my own grandchildren. Of July week as family and friends gather to celebrate. Yield: About 3 doz. 1 tsp baking powder.
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The View from My Broom. Ruminations of a Crone. Saturday, July 11, 2015. You Cannot Justify the Confederate Flag Flying on Public Property;. But maybe in your own yard. This year has been eye opening for an old Pacific NW white woman. I. Racism was alive, but I didn't realize it was doing so well. Police brutality, a church massacre, church burnings, and the revelation that the Confederate flag still flies on public property, not only in the South, but right here in Western Washington! Gone with the Wind.
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The View from My Broom. Ruminations of a Crone. Friday, June 19, 2015. We move through our lives making connections, some that last a lifetime and some that seem to fade like an old Kodachrome snapshot. For me, Facebook means reconnecting threads long broken, but unless that person belongs to Facebook it's more difficult and in some instances comes just plain too late. I've had two such instances lately. Why wasting your precious time online looking for a loan? When there is an opportunity for you to inv...
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The View from My Broom: May 2013
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The View from My Broom. Ruminations of a Crone. Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Remembering What We’re Honoring. I believe that fiddling around with traditional holidays in order to make three day weekends was a mistake. This has led to a diminishment of the individual holidays; confusion over what it is that is being honored, and co-opting by businesses for their own selfish gains. Take the holiday, Memorial Day, just passed as a case in point. In many communities the day is celebrated as Decoration Day. When ho...
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The View from My Broom: August 2013
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The View from My Broom. Ruminations of a Crone. Tuesday, August 27, 2013. Looking Toward the Firsts and the Lasts. Amy’s and my summer at the shore is coming to an end. We are getting ready to head home to Gig Harbor so that I can go back to work at Gig Harbor High School. This time of year is always filled with mixed emotions for me. I like my job. I assist the most amiable eighteen year old student who is forbearing with an aide who is an old lady. We have similar senses of humor. I have come to love t...