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For the red, white & blue

Blueberry cornmeal muffins, with red papers. ha. So here’s the plan: Muffins & bananas for breakfast (any minute now). Maybe a bike ride? For dinner: Grilled shrimp & brats and that potluck broccoli salad with bacon (I am going to make my version with bacon, toasted almonds, raisins, shallots – and the mayo, vinegar, sugar […]

What a relief

A year ago October, I went to Pittsburgh for a metadata conference, and stayed an extra day to wander around and visit, including a visit to my parents’ grave. Where I was quite surprised to find that they’d never set the marker for my mom. Even though we’d paid the cemetery some $4000 to open […]

Mom & Dad and Bill Clinton

Today would be my parents 60th wedding anniversary if either of them was still around. They didn’t make 50 years, even, since my Dad died a couple of months after their 47th anniversary in 1998. I liked it when Clinton was president and my parents were alive because I’d usually hear on the news one […]