keep passing the open windows

I’m beginning to think my blog should just be entitled “Ways I embarrass myself and/or my children.”
Yesterday morning, stepping out of the shower, I heard the phone ring. It was 7:30 am and my husband had just left for work. Thinking he must have forgotten to tell me [...]

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(The kind you eat, not a pet.)
Thank you Food Blogga! And Kona Blue!
The kona kampachi was caught in Hawaii on Sunday, shipped on Monday and arrived on Wednesday. Thus we had super fresh fish last night.
But first we had to get a bit of butchering out of the way!
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My sister K. has a Myspace blog and yesterday, her birthday (Happy Belated Birthday!), she wrote a post about driving across a bridge and imaging her car going over the edge.
Would she try to save herself? Would she drown? Would she suddenly, under pressure, learn to swim?
And she also pondered the [...]

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On Father’s Day my dad was supposed to arrive at Chez Wood around 1:00 or 1:30 after dropping my nephew F. off at the train station in nearby Galesburg, IL.
Before his expected arrival I started the grill, made a couple of salads, prepared potatoes, garlic bread and chicken to be grilled, cut up onions and [...]

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There is a David Sedaris story that goes something like this:
“One summer my family was embroiled in a mystery. Someone was wiping his or her butt on our mahogany colored bathtowels and replacing the towels on the shelf, properly folded. At one point or other each of us was the victim and one [...]

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I had a nice Mother’s Day.
The highlight? One of my sisters text messaged my mom:
“Happy Mother’s Day! Sorry, can’t make it. Warrant out for arrest. Can’t drive. Love, M.”

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At Easter I (finally) met my sister K.’s boyfriend. I introduced him to my dad and said “This is K.’s buh buh… friend” Stumbling over the “boy” part, unsure if they are “official.”
Do thirty year olds call their significant other “boyfriend/girlfriend?” It sounds very high school to me.
My [...]

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