April 2008

Wordless Wednesday

April 30, 2008

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In a recent meeting with my colleagues, we all sat around a conference table, our identical Blackberries in front of us. As one by one the Blackberries chirped, clicked, chimed, and buzzed, we found ourselves laughing at we looked at each other and then down at our individual devices, simultaneously declaring, “It’s yours” or “It’s mine.” […]

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Friday’s Feast #188

April 24, 2008

Friday’s Feast #188 Appetizer Name something you would categorize as weird. Peanut butter and tuna sandwiches. My oldest son used to eat them every day. In fact, for awhile, I had to make them and pack them in his lunch. Thank God he outgrew that phase! Topics: Friday’s Feast

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Connected Lives (Part Four)

April 21, 2008

Here in California, it is unusually cold for late April, but that was fine with me. I settled in last evening, wrapped in my favorite blanket, to watch the seventh and final installment of HBO’s spectacular adaptation of David McCullough’s biography of John Adams. As with the prior episodes, I was not disappointed. The story […]

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Political Legacy

April 20, 2008

Tonight’s television viewing: The conclusion of John Adams on HBO. I could not resist sharing the irony I found in the final moments of that seven-part mini-series … and the trailer that immediately followed it: Topics: 2000 Presidential Election, John Adams, Politics

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Connected Lives (Part Three)

April 14, 2008

This past week, I was contacted by a reporter from the Stockton Record. She interviewed me for a story about women here in California’s Central Valley who blog. She has also spoken with women in nearby Modesto and Stockton. Among the questions she asked me: “How did you get started blogging? Why do you blog?” […]

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Friday’s Feast Special Edition

April 11, 2008

Friday’s Feast Special Edition The questions this week are courtesy of Stone Girl at Musings of a Cynical Optimist. Appetizer What is your favourite vacation spot in the United States? It might be a place I haven’t gone yet! Odds are it has a beach and I’m longing to return to Hawaii, but also have […]

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Friday Fill-Ins: Volume 6

April 11, 2008

1. I love springtime in Northern California. 2. Cranberry scones and cinnamon-raisin bagels are foods I love to eat for breakfast. 3. It seems I’m always searching for evidence — it’s an occupational hazard. Topics: Friday Fill-Ins

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Connected Lives (Part Two)

April 7, 2008

Last night over dinner, one of my oldest and dearest friends mentioned that she had spent some time yesterday writing a letter to her daughter who is attending college in the Midwest. She explained that she had found a beautiful card and decided to send it, accompanied by a letter. I email regularly with her […]

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Friday Fill-Ins: Volume 5

April 4, 2008

1. Tonight I saw Oprah’s interview of Thomas Beatie, the transgendered man from Oregon who is now pregnant. What do you think about his decision to give birth to a child with his wife of five years, Nancy? Photo from ABC News. 2. “Sway” by the Pussycat Dolls makes me wanna dance! (“Shall We Dance?” […]

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Life in Lodi: The Pickle Makes Small Town News

April 3, 2008

Remember Lodi’s dancing pickle featured on Wordless Wednesday on February 26, 2008? A couple of weeks ago, this blurb appeared in the Lodi News-Sentinel’s Cop Log: A pickle — the dancing human kind who works for Mr. Pickle’s Sandwich Shop — was blocking traffic. An officer arrived and advised the pickle. On Tuesday evening, as part of […]

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