Education

It’s that odd time of year when the heaviness of gloomy June skies have given up the fight and succumbed to summer.  In a few short weeks, all the weather you might attribute to the most southern corner of  California has graced us with its seemingly relieved presence:  blue skies clear enough for skywriters to [...]

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Guitar The Resident Teen Rocker turned 16 while we were in Italy last month. Other than giving him a card that had our family’s required elements of butts, farting, or both, and singing Happy Birthday as horribly as we pridefully aim to, he didn’t have a candle to blow out. Now that I think of [...]

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Ahhh…the delightfulness of a Friday yawning ahead of me with nary a plan in sight. My favorite sort of day. I should have known that it might not be so when I forced my self to get up at a minute before eight because at least I could have bragging rights to it. Not that [...]

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Looky, Mom! I got an A on my report card! w00t! Your Vocabulary Score: A- Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!You must be quite an erudite person. How’s Your Vocabulary? And the RTR does fairly well in that area also, but suffice it to say the school shenanigans have surfaced again. In other words, periods of [...]

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I’m supposed to be paying bills. I used to harass the MoH about not paying them on time and isn’t it amazing that I’m doing the exact same thing. It’s nice to know after so many years of bliss that I can learn about yet another of our common proclivities: procrastination. Misery does love company, [...]

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