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Loco Lu’s is a new family-owned coffeehouse in the Oak Park shopping center in Raleigh (www.locolu.com). Its owners, Lu and Janice and their kids, are as friendly as can be. The place is...
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Is it my imagination, or are we all feeling a little moody this month? With the reminders about September 11th, the political fatigue, the suffering related to Hanna and Ike, and now the banks...
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I hope Hanna hurries on out of here tomorrow, because I’m supposed to do a reading of All on Account of You in Wake Forest, at The Storyteller’s Bookstore at 3:00 p.m. Even though Hanna’s gotten...
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Where did the last two weeks go? Seriously, time has been disappearing on me. Is this happening to you guys too? I wrote this (below) on August 22nd, then checked with my friends to make sure...
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It appears that in yesterday’s post I was channeling Sue Monk Kidd without knowing it. This morning I finally finished her Dance of the Dissident Daughter, and in the last section found this:
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When my hubby and I listened to The Secret by Rhonda Byrne on our recent trip, one of the major turnoffs was the emphasis on money. Sure, we all want to be paid, and paid well, for our efforts. Still...
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I love using notecards and giving them as gifts. These stunning kaleidoscope images from The Enchanted Forrest are created from nature photos using photo editing software. The cards and...
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SPOILER ALERT FOR THE BOOK THE SECRET BY RHONDA BYRNE!!!
I found the solution to the cat-related part of my sleep issues. A hotel!
Last weekend we drove to Columbus, OH, to a Courtney family...
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Okay, whose idea of a cruel joke is it that just when your kids go off to college, and you no longer have to get up with crying babies (not to mention toddlers with ear infections, school-aged kids...
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I’m 50 and I’m proud of it. Although there are some things I hate about being this age (hot flashes!), there are many other things I love about it. One is that, because our personalities are fairly...
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My husband, unlike yours truly, loves reality shows. But last week we got hooked on Beauty and the Geek reruns. If you never seen it, the show is a social experiment which pairs beautiful young women...
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I never even had a massage until a few years ago. Then I started getting them a few times a year, and now I’m getting one a month, which feels kind of extravagant to me. But when I looked on the net...
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My reference to The Dance of the Dissident Daughter in yesterday’s post provides a perfect segway into the topic that's on my mind today: daughters.
My 19 year old daughter is leaving tomorrow...
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Hello, and welcome to my blog. I started a post last night and worked on it for a while, wanting it to be good since it was the first post. I tried to preview it, apparently just as the site was...
