Category: inter-world
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Gracie got a little gift at the pharmacie the other day–a keychain with a stuffed raccoon attached—rather cute. My reply when she showed it to me: "Oh, look! A raccoon! How cute! They eat garbage and carry rabies!" oops.
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Today was Grace's birthday party—she's two years old! After Grace realized that I wasn't there because her mom and dad were leaving (I watch her so regularly, she always associates me with mom and dad leaving), she enjoyed her party and all the presents. The sweater Mom made her for her first birthday is still…
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Gordon, Mom's gentleman friend, sent these pictures that he snapped during our dinner party when Mike and Matt were visiting last month. Check out that last one—Mom and Mike, all that love! Pity Gordon was too busy taking pictures to be in one!
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this is the day, three years ago, that i learned of the insignificance of refrigerators. all my loving thoughts to those who know what i'm talking about, and a few more loving thoughts to those who don't.
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–"Miami's airport was crowded with tourists whose vacations were ruined or interrupted by Frances. "I think it's a big fuss over nothing," said 35-year-old Geraldine Lamb, who was visiting from London."– Right-o sweetheart. "Nothing" being Hurricane Francis, just on the heels of last month's deadly Hurricane Charley.
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Bjorn, a retired chief of police from Norway, currently working part-time for a publishing company specializing in true crime stories, has a brother whose son is attending university, studying music, in Lincoln, Nebraska, where my father attended college not too far from his own home town of Edgar, Nebraska. Bjorn's favorite true crime story of…
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The City of Roses, City of bridges, whatever you call it, Portland, beyond the outdoor beauty and organic produce, has a wacky side: Admire chess sets and mannequins at the Maryhill Museum (or get a used mannequin of your own, or rent Mannequin, the greatest movie ever!). A writer's hotel. Everyone, even marauding Santas and…
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Voila! Here's Mike and Matt's complete online photo album of their visit to Paris and Antibes—some great shots, those boys are so damn cute. Has it been nearly a week since they left already? Miss 'em so.
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I've been trying to paint this week….emphasis on trying….Don't know what it is; summer lethargy or perhaps the stress of attempting to arrange this big move back to the States, but everything is turning out crap. I think my life is too disorganized and uncertain at the moment to allow my mind to make confidant…
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Seeing Mike and Matt off on the train this morning.
girl at large 