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Lent

2008-02-05T04:30:33Z

“What are you giving up for Lent?” has become about as meaningful as “What are your New Year’s Resolutions?” I have to be honest: I haven’t given anything up for Lent since I was a kid. I’m considering it, this year. What prompted this? I was rep...

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Crazy Lilies of the Field

2008-01-30T16:10:35Z

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for the...

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A First Birthday to Remember

2008-01-29T10:51:52Z

Katie is #11 on Richard Blackwell’s “10 Worst Dressed Women” list for 1989. When she was a year old, I wrote to about 160 celebrities in a variety of fields: entertainment, sports, law, science, medicine, music, etc. and asked them to send her bi...

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I am never swimming in a lake again!! Well...

2007-10-02T19:52:21Z

Well, maybe. BUT... Brain-Eating Amoeba Linked to 6 Deaths An amoeba that typically lives in lakes and enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain has been linked to six deaths in the United States this year, federal health offic...

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Making Cornbread from Scratch

2007-10-01T02:37:04Z

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Adventures in Camping: Not Exactly "Nature Girl"

2007-09-28T22:22:05Z

Friday evening, January 8, 1999 Katie and I loaded up the car with our camping gear, said goodbye to the menfolk, and headed for Matzke Elementary to meet the other members of Girl Scout Troop #5506: Chris and Danielle; Debbie and Brianne; Sheil...

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A Sad Sight

2007-08-22T16:21:21Z

The photo on the right shows the room where our wedding reception was held (top left); behind that, through the doorway, is the living room where we were married in 1984. The carpet and paint were brand new. The house, however, was not. My p...

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Adventures in Tripe (Parts 3 and 4): Final Verdict

2007-08-13T12:41:59Z

Well, frankly - the jury's divided.

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Adventures in Tripe (Part 2, The Dare)

2007-08-12T23:18:15Z

OMG, that's foul.

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Adventures in Tripe (Part I)

2007-08-12T12:43:15Z

My first YouTube Video! Adventures in Tripe... to be continued later this afternoon, after the tripe takes its wine bath. This started out as a dare (kids, here's why you don't want to take dares - but if you do, cooking tripe is better than doi...

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