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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down: January 2012

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down. My Red Dress Instructions. Thursday, January 19, 2012. And thanks for the lemonade. Sometimes, When Life Gives You Lemons. You Just Have Lemons. Which is usually better than not even having lemons-I think.). The past little while in my own personal life has been kind of, well, lemony. My dad always described the lemon-times with this example:. Yesterday I got some news that, though it had some lemons-like quality to it, was pure lemonade. School dresses,...

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down: January 2011

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down. My Red Dress Instructions. Monday, January 24, 2011. Elementary School and Ambergris and Bituminous Coal and Memory. I’ve been thinking lately about elementary school and that led me to thinking about ambergris and bituminous coal and memory. A non-church affiliated school would, in those over crowded times, simply have been called “Oh-shit-here-they-come! Again, I digress). Who decided that we needed to know about ambergris (imagine, if you will, the sc...

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down: February 2011

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down. My Red Dress Instructions. Saturday, February 26, 2011. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN-FEBRUARY 2011. Dear Governor Walker,. I have a different question to put to you today. You have made it abundantly clear that you are sticking to your guns on the budget repair bill because:. Just asking…). Okay, let’s take that as given. There’s more stuff hiding in there.). Why have you pitted the population of your state against itself? Clearly you can&...

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down: March 2011

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down. My Red Dress Instructions. Wednesday, March 30, 2011. This title, this thought, these small graces have been nagging at me and I’m not even sure what they want. I just keep thinking about the idea of ‘small graces’. I think I know what they mean (what I mean) when I think about them but I’m not at all sure how to make what I think I mean mean something (if you know what I mean). Let’s try this:. Many people bring these graces to my life. My darling daugh...

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down: Barbie and My Bad, Bad Hair Day

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down. My Red Dress Instructions. Thursday, September 15, 2011. Barbie and My Bad, Bad Hair Day. I seriously doubt she went herself ). I imagine that we were excited but the way things ended I don’t really remember (wait for the end and you can judge) but the day started out well enough. To quote my mother here I looked like “a little girl under a middle-aged woman’s head of hair”. I had a ratted and teased bee-hive-like mound behind super...My cousin Laurie su...

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down: It’s Almost Christmas (and today I am heartbroken )

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down. My Red Dress Instructions. Wednesday, November 30, 2011. It’s Almost Christmas (and today I am heartbroken. Today, two years after I first wrote this, I am putting ornaments on the Christmas Tree and it's the same- lovely, joyous, heartbreaking same. This was his time, his season, his holiday. I don't miss the gifts.I miss the giving. I miss the man. This title is a bit misleading but it’s also the right-on, accurate truth. And so we come to today, this ...

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down: Sometimes I Sew Things

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down. My Red Dress Instructions. Wednesday, January 11, 2012. Sometimes I Sew Things. Note the "Not the Grapes of Wrath". Dress I am wearing. Why make a red dress? In part because my grandmother made several for me. She kept up with fashion trends and made fantastic, fabulous, beautiful, one-of-a kind dresses. I remember how wonderful I felt. I also remember standing during fittings and alterations and meticulously measured hems for what seemed like an...I did...

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down: November 2011

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down. My Red Dress Instructions. Wednesday, November 30, 2011. It’s Almost Christmas (and today I am heartbroken. Today, two years after I first wrote this, I am putting ornaments on the Christmas Tree and it's the same- lovely, joyous, heartbreaking same. This was his time, his season, his holiday. I don't miss the gifts.I miss the giving. I miss the man. This title is a bit misleading but it’s also the right-on, accurate truth. And so we come to today, this ...

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down: ...and thanks for the lemonade

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down. My Red Dress Instructions. Thursday, January 19, 2012. And thanks for the lemonade. Sometimes, When Life Gives You Lemons. You Just Have Lemons. Which is usually better than not even having lemons-I think.). The past little while in my own personal life has been kind of, well, lemony. My dad always described the lemon-times with this example:. Yesterday I got some news that, though it had some lemons-like quality to it, was pure lemonade. Trump is a chump.

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down: The Day My Father Died

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I Think About Stuff and Sometimes I Write It Down. My Red Dress Instructions. Monday, September 19, 2011. The Day My Father Died. I was with him in the afternoon. He was 85 and had been ill but wasn't then, that day. He was the same. His year round Christmas tree was decorated for summer and he was wearing shorts and a loose shirt and was barefoot. I told him that I thought we should call 911 and asked if he wanted me to. He said that if I thought so then we should. He put it my hands. At the hospital, i...