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Be Careful What You Wish For

May 25th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Today was my daughter’s birthday and it was the first one that she was not home for as she is now a working girl. By chance, her sister happened to be traveling to her town, so they had a birthday celebration without me – without the rest of us – but mostly me. Sad at [...]

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A Time to Laugh, A Time to Cry

May 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Daughter #2 graduated from college this past Saturday (and the most boring speaker talked forever about quantum blah-blah for nearly 40 minutes and she was a journalist/television personality on Fox News who should have had a much better speech. I formally offer to edit/write her next speech if she should like to contact me. I [...]

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She Auto Know

September 10th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Sometimes you just have to laugh. It scares the neighbors a lot less than screaming. We had arranged for my daughter to purchase my husband’s car at a special price when we got a new one. It has airbags – very important, as she has had a few fender benders. He gave her such a [...]

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Wicked Weekend

June 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments

I took the girls to see Wicked today. The ticket for my one daughter was part of her birthday present. The play was very good, better than I expected and we ate afterwards. It was a very enjoyable day and we even lucked out getting a primo parking spot in Buffalo. Some guy actually signaled [...]

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