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Martha's Life Cafe: Welcome 2014
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Thursday, January 2, 2014. So now I am facing the dreaded hour long commute - which is daunting in the mitten in January and February (and sometimes March and April), but is still not as bad as the hour and a half to two hours my boyfriend faces each way every day. That fact brings me to another undertaking for 2014, getting our house projects completed so that we could. To be done before we face them. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to Martha's Life Cafe. Writing, editing and publishing.
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Martha's Life Cafe: Being "Other"
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017. Today I ran across an essay that I wrote some years ago, and I find that it resonates with the current state of the world. Armed Conflict through the Eyes of an Eight Year Old Child. As a child, I found myself in the rather peculiar position of living on a university campus in post-colonial. In the mid-1960s. At the edge of my little girl consciousness, there was a military overthrow of the government, and sometime later the. Where I lived, seceded from. As we know it today, is...
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Martha's Life Cafe: September 2012
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Saturday, September 22, 2012. Cars I have known. I am not sure why I have been thinking about this so much lately, perhaps it was the loss of the Buick this summer, but I have been thinking about all the cars I have owned. Or maybe it was getting my Honda Accord back from the mitten. I have always had an interesting relationship with my cars…. Pierre saw me though the ‘between husbands’ era, and was eventually replaced by the quintessential soccer-mom vehicle, a Chevy Astro, which was supplem...Buying a ...
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Martha's Life Cafe: December 2013
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Sunday, December 8, 2013. A dear friend passed this on to me shortly after the birth of my first child. and today I share it with all of you. (If it doesn't bring tears to your eyes.). In Silence I lie and watch thy face,. And think how full thou art of grace,. And, oh how kind! And I almost laugh as I hear you say. 8220;I think the baby has noticed today.”. To Thee I am “baby” – thou dost not know. How often I’ve lived – how long ago. A chieftain I was, and once a King –. So day by day into thy face.
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Martha's Life Cafe: November 2013
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Saturday, November 23, 2013. November 22, 1963. 50 years ago today, when John F. Kennedy was shot and killed, I was 6 years old, a first grader at Marble Elementary School in East Lansing, Michigan, and everyone called me Meg. I didn’t really understand what that event meant, except that all the teachers were visibly upset and my teacher had been crying. Would the protests demanding social change for African Americans and for women and for others have happened? And so, in my own small ways, I strive for ...
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Martha's Life Cafe: The Bane of my Existence
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Saturday, January 11, 2014. The Bane of my Existence. If you have ever been to my house you know that most of the first floor is covered with tile. Often, when someone comes over for the first time the first thing they will say is something along the line of, “Oh, I love these floors! Nick with Gambit back in 2005. Here you can see how the floors usually look. When we bought this house 18 years ago, I thought the floors were red brick with black grout and I thought, “Great! Before, dirty, nasty floor!
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Martha's Life Cafe: October 2013
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Saturday, October 26, 2013. How to Cook Fresh Pumpkin. It is almost Halloween so I went to our local pumpkin patch earlier this week and picked up some pumpkins for carving and one for pies. There is a HUGE difference between varieties of pumpkins and I thought perhaps it might be handy for you to have directions on how to roast one – fresh pumpkin is SO much better than canned. So here is the step by step. Using your sharp knife and some muscle, cut the pumpkin in half leaving the stem intact on one side.
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Martha's Life Cafe: A baby speaks...
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Sunday, December 8, 2013. A dear friend passed this on to me shortly after the birth of my first child. and today I share it with all of you. (If it doesn't bring tears to your eyes.). In Silence I lie and watch thy face,. And think how full thou art of grace,. And, oh how kind! And I almost laugh as I hear you say. 8220;I think the baby has noticed today.”. To Thee I am “baby” – thou dost not know. How often I’ve lived – how long ago. A chieftain I was, and once a King –. So day by day into thy face.
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Martha's Life Cafe: August 2013
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Saturday, August 10, 2013. A couple of weeks ago I happened across a post on my facebook feed about a movie which is to be released soon. " Half of a Yellow Sun. Is based on a novel written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She is a wonderful author from Enugu, Nigeria. I am pretty sure her father was a student of my father. I suddenly felt as though all my years of work (albeit spotty work) was for naught. Here, someone has already made a movie about that conflict, so now what am I to do?
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