fortunate discoveries by accident

staying alive to bite the dust

2009-07-04T05:34:39Z

I read an interesting article about a woman who went hiking with her husband in the woods not too long ago. He had a heart attack on the trail, far from help, and she remembered a public service announcement that advised her to do CPR in time to ...

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It's not easy being green

2009-07-02T02:39:10Z

Back in the day, we saved our cans and newspapers and took them to the official recycling center. That place was never close to home and piles of recyclables would stack up, waiting and dripping and decomposing until there was "enough" to justify...

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Just call me David Blaine

2009-06-24T00:50:13Z

Scene: Juju and I, waiting for Cassandre to get her rubber bands replaced at the orthodontist. Juju "What number am I thinking of?" Me, looking at her fingers "Four." Juju "Grrrr! Okay what color am I thinking of?" Me, remembering the red shirt ...

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Becoming a waterbaby (maybe)

2009-06-21T01:50:33Z

Juju, as you may have realized, is somewhat of a daredevil. She loves to slide down banisters, jump speed bumps on her scooter and is trying her best to climb trees. It won't be long before she's tall enough to reach those lower branches herself,...

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Strappy sandals

2009-06-15T04:52:47Z

She wants me to go with her to the ladies room. We don't hold hands and she walks ahead of me, but she is not quite ready to go to a strange bathroom by herself. She still wants her mama. We enter the stalls side by side. Now eleven, she is too ...

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Up

2009-05-31T04:56:42Z

Dear Disney, I realize that it's hard to get past 60 years of tradition but really, do you HAVE to kill the mother figure in every freaking movie you make? From Snow White to Bambi, to Ariel and Nemo it's been generation after generation of matr...

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Be vewy, vewy quiet

2009-05-21T21:05:59Z

So here at the fly shop we get to see all kinds of interesting and pretty things beyond rods and reels and the kids really love it when the boxes of new stuff come in. They can see the inventory before it goes on the shelves. The fly tying stuff ...

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Kid fun

2009-05-14T04:45:36Z

Now that Cassandre and her friends are all online they send the craziest stuff to each other. For a while they were sending these awful chain letters and I had to explain to Cassandre that no one would get hurt, she would not get her wish nor wou...

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Vox neighbors meet

2009-05-07T16:44:35Z

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I am the chaperone

2009-04-30T15:26:32Z

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