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Road Trip to Kentucky, Part 1
Lake Barkley In which we drive through 12 states, more than 2,500 miles, met friends and family, and see a huge part of this beautiful country of ours that I’d never seen before. My paternal...
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Road Trip to Kentucky, Part 2
Sunday September 16: Lake Barkley to Nashville On Sunday morning we packed up the van (and were glad to put some of our overflow into my parents’ rental car) and headed south towards Nashville,...
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Snowy Day Brain Dump
Grate. I’ve stalled out on blogging recently. I’ve got a backlog of learning notes posts going back to December. And some reading posts too. And a bunch of half-baked drafts about books and such. And I...
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Gettysburg July 2019, Day I
A great little diner, across the street from the Gettysburg train station. Our first and last meals in town were eaten here. We were supposed to have gone to Gettysburg last September on our way home...
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Gettysburg July 2019, Day III
On Wednesday we got up and had another camp breakfast of eggs and bacon. Taking time to cook breakfast and do the dishes after did mean that we didn’t hit the road until after 9. So we didn’t much...
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After Long Silence…
It’s been a long time since I opened the Add New Post tab on my browser. And even longer since I actually finished and posted a blog entry. There are a few drafts that never made it very far,...
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Solstice, 2020— Grace Notes at the Closing of the Year
Evening comes early on this solstice day. The sky lies under a heavy veil, but it is unseasonably warm and wet. We likely won’t see the marvelous conjunction, Jupiter and Saturn meeting once in 400...
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Temporarily Homeless
Lucy wanders the hall as we are preparing to depart. The flooring has been pulled up in the hall, the walls opened up. It was a slow trickle. The floorboards in the hall seemed wet. Did someone spill...
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Temporarily Homeless, Part 2: Cape Cod Escape
Sophie jumps joyfully. A friend offers his family’s vacation house on Cape Cod for a couple of weeks. We accept his offer. And once all our things are packed and moved we check out of the hotel and...
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Temporarily Homeless, Part 3: Plymouth
Sunset. The insurance adjustor says they’ll pay for us to stay in a residential hotel, two one-bedroom suites. We argue… seven people in four rooms for a month or more… sounds like hell. We make a...
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