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Monthly Archives: July 2025
Trying Something Different
This is what happens when I sign up for daily or weekly e-mail subscriptions: I don’t read the e-mails, so they pile up in my in-box. When they accumulate into a daunting mass, I delete them. Right up until that … Continue reading
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Signs
There are still some clovers blooming in the front yard, but what has the bees all abuzz at the moment is the sweet pepperbush. You can smell it as soon as you step outside. It’s such a wonderful fragrance, and … Continue reading
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Taking Steps
Earlier this year I started walking regularly again as part of my crusade to get better sleep. I set the daily minimum at four driveway laps (half a mile). It doesn’t sound like a lot, but it was difficult for … Continue reading
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Love Lost
It’s summertime, and I used to love summer, but now I’m starting to loathe it. There are still some great things about summer–sunset walks, dragonflies and hummingbirds, wildflowers, grilled food–but it gets harder to enjoy them. I hope it won’t … Continue reading
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Dain Bramage
I kid you not when I say that by the end of the last school year I was starting to get very worried about the state of my brain. After nearly two years of early waking plus trouble sleeping (thanks, … Continue reading
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Quick Six
I recently crossed six more books off the BBC’s Top 100 Children’s Books list.
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For the Bees
Talking to my sister-in-law recently, my husband told her about how, for the bees’ sake, I’d asked him not to mow the front lawn for a while. She joked that she would have done exactly the opposite. I laughed in … Continue reading
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Much Ado About the Dewberry
When my friend and I were walking in Putnam earlier this year, I noticed a low-growing white flower that looked maybe a little strawberryish. Imagine my surprise when I later found what appeared to be that same type of plant … Continue reading
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Reading Report: Mid-July 2025
My reading count for 2025 is now up to 12. That’s nothing to brag about, but should I not read anything else this year, at least I’ll have already reached the “one book per month” level and won’t have to … Continue reading
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