I may stay that way for a few days. A friend of the family’s died yesterday very unexpectedly from a massive cerebral hemorrhage. That combined with the fact he was about the same age makes for a few hours contemplating parts of life other than keeping up with the blog. For instance, it’s dawned on [...]

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So…yesterday at Farmer’s Market I had the knife folks sharpen four of my knives. It is a complete and incredible joy to work with sharp knives. I’d kicked myself a good portion of the winter for not taking them by the tent before the season ended last fall. I have to say it wasn’t an [...]

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You put up one heck of a fight, sir.

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Kathryn Ruby passed away last Sunday at the age of 99. I’m stepping out on a limb here, but if Jake Ruby happens to see this, I want him to know how very much I admire the dedication he gave to his mother. I’m pretty sure he promised her she would be able to die [...]

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First check of many just written for New York University. Pink envelope affirming acceptance is on the kitchen island waiting to be mailed. Beside it is an envelope to UW-Madison with a check in the “NO” box. Never in my mommy world did I think I’d ever be sending a “NO” envelope to Madison. She’s [...]

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Many of you know I was born in OKC and spent my first years there. I figure I have a better reason than Bill Clinton to weigh in on the tragedy, and so I will. I remember standing at the counter in a southern California deli when I first heard the news. We had our [...]

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Randy’s father passed away last night. Randy has been the primary caregiver for his dad for a while. Dad had late-stage Alzheimer’s disease. You can’t have hung out with me over the last year without spending time with Randy, too. I’ve said it before, but it’s always fun to repeat: I don’t know exactly how [...]

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I’m going to live. I started breathing on my own this afternoon – well, not exactly on my own. There was a heavy dose of decongestant involved, but they worked. Boy did they! I realized I must be feeling better because I had a sudden urge to clean out the pantry. Oh, boy. To be [...]

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My laptop died again. All of you loving your Macs do it now and get it over with: “You should have bought a Mac!” Well I didn’t. So now it’s obvious this little lovely is a lemon, it’s going to the shop, under warranty thank goodness, to see if any life can be coaxed from [...]

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I’m still working on the back room. It’s really exciting to be at the point of rearranging contents versus dumping the clutter. One of the boxes that remained was my file of campaign finance information from 2006. How long do I have to keep this stuff? Well it’s been a few days, but someone finally [...]

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