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LA CASA DE PATY: June 2011
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LA CASA DE PATY. Sunday, June 26, 2011. I can't imagine how this front door was designed to be so far from the sidewalk. And then need such tall, skinny steps to reach the door threshold. The architect (yeah right) who designed this house obviously didn't measure correctly in order to get the floor of the house even close to level with the sidewalk. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). REFLECTIONS ON MY LIFE IN MEXICO. Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico. View my complete profile. Why I love Mexico.
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Commuter Family: December 2014
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How Does It Work? Sunday, December 28, 2014. Talented Niece #1 draws Commuter Family on Crayola Drawing Board. We are driving out of Kentucky Sunday morning. We had a truly wonderful holiday week with Brother, Nephew, Niece #1 and Niece #2. One of the complexities of living life after losing a loved one is feeling happy AND dealing with grief at the exact same time. Christmas Eve day included the endearing smells and activities of preparing a holiday dinner:. Greenberg Turkey carved and plated by Brother.
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Travels of a Retired Teacher: October 2014
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Travels of a Retired Teacher. Friday, October 31, 2014. Image from the web). I suppose you could say that I am a Halloween Grinch. Even though Alejandro is up here on Halloween for the first time, I am not doing anything to celebrate it. no costumes, no candy, no ghoulish decorations. I didn't even buy a pumpkin, much less carve a jack o' lantern. I can remember decades ago when more than 100 "trick-or-treaters" would come to the door. Now there are very few. But to my readers in the United States. We ha...
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Travels of a Retired Teacher: December 2014
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Travels of a Retired Teacher. Monday, December 29, 2014. Pictured below is a colonial plaza in the historic center of Mexico City. Can you name it? What religious organization once had its headquarters on one side of this plaza? On another side of the plaza is a colonnade where a group of people have been practicing their unique profession since colonial times. Can you name their occupation? Now can anyone answer the bonus questions? Joan correctly answered the first bonus question. It is true, as Jo...
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Commuter Family: Who Are We?
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How Does It Work? Our family has decided to become a Commuter Family. Mommy with Commuter Husband will manage two boys in Dallas during the week while Commuter Husband works in Houston. Commuter Husband started a new job with an Oil and Gas Company in Houston on April 23, 2012. He has been the primary caregiver and an amazing father for our two boys since 2007. Big Change. Job great! And loves front yard football! Big year for him since he will be having his Bar Mitzvah in Israel in December 2012! Clearl...
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Commuter Family: More Seaside in Gdansk & Sopot
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How Does It Work? Sunday, May 17, 2015. More Seaside in Gdansk and Sopot. Saturday afternoon strolling along the Baltic Sea. Lunch at Bar Przystan included fresh baked Zander which is a popular fish in Poland and considered a delicacy due to the difficulty catching it. I also had warm beet borschet sipped from a mug - a new favorite soup since traveling through Poland over past few months. The marina in Sopot which is the town right next to Gdansk - literally - meaning walking distance.
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Commuter Family: March 2015
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How Does It Work? Thursday, March 26, 2015. Teen Days Are Here. I have sat with the blank screen in front of me for several minutes. I am not sure how to write about a topic in which I likely have nothing new to add: living with a teenager. Mothering teens is the same and different for all of us. It is a journey of giant highs and crushing lows and everything in between. Of all my difficult journeys, this one may be the toughest thus far. Teenager and linear thinking do not belong in the same sentence.
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Reservations for One: Home Office
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A journal about the Third Chapter, my life as a widow. Cooking-for-one, Entertaining, Travel, Grief, Family, Friends, Ageing, Photography and Living in San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico. Friday, June 19, 2015. This week Houzz, the on-line architecture and design newsletter, ran a section that they called 95 Deskscape Dazzlers. A piece of art work behind the desk would be nice but a big monitor would cover it up. Most of the desks were too small to open a laptop and also have any reference materials open.