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Remembering Grams
My beloved grandma – Mary Alice – died last week. For those of you who follow my blog, you know that she was my sun, moon and stars: a wise-cracking, Florence Nightingale of a miracle savior. My universe and those of so many others will never be the same after her passing. The lights have…
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2007 – The Year in Review
Before starting the new year fresh, it’s common practice to put forth the best and worst list for the year that was. My 2007 was such a masterful, chaotic mish-mash of both good and misfortune that I’m not quite sure where to begin. But because I like a challenge, here’s my best shot. BEST Movie:…
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Hype or Hope? The 2006 Election Cycle
Late 60’s slain inspirer-in-chief, Bobby Kennedy, once said “one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.” Watching the politico witch-hunt commercials of Election 2006, it seems like four-fifths might be more accurate. At a time when news from the Baghdad front is grim and the best that can be said from one of…
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You Take The Cake
34 of anything is alot, especially when they are gleaming candles on your buttercream frosted birthday cake. Yes, dear readers this LRG turns three decades plus four today but despite the crow’s feet headed to Grand Canyon fissure-land, I have little cause for alarm. My spirit (as well as my teley viewing habits) are still…
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Let It Snow!
Comic Chris Rock often exorts that cough-stopper Robitussin is the elixir for all that ails us as humans. I happen to think the same of snow. Having just trudged in from the artic circle that is my neighborhood, I could not be happier. Eight inches really is all a girl needs! Perhaps it’s my childhood…
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A Stark Contrast: Decision 2004
I may have lived in the swamp through two Marion Barry mayorships AND his post-crackhead Council seat victory but as you, my faithful readers know, I’m a Buckeye girl through and through. My crimson and gray colors do not fade. And I will never lose my ability to make a kick-ass hamloaf! We Ohioans are…