Guessing Games

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July 12, 2010

Gardening is tough over the hot summer months.  When spring first breaks and you can’t wait for the ground to warm enough to start planting, that’s the romance of the garden.  Then the dirt is ready, the plants go in, and trouble begins. Six weeks later, you’re sweating buckets and cursing yourself for not using [...]

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Summer Eating

July 6, 2010
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Fresh food. Is there anything better than summertime food? Plucked right off the vine and eaten with no more than a wash and a wipe, tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers are summery heaven in your own back yard. And if you got enraptured by flowers at the garden center and neglected to plant all the veggies [...]

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AWESOME Book Review

June 21, 2010
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Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon.  I just finished it this morning, read it straight through in a couple days, only putting it down when there were other people around, you know, asking me to live my life. Everyone has had a friend who changed them, a friend they maybe shouldn’t have hung out with, a friend [...]

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What Twenty Percent Looks Like

June 17, 2010
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What happens when ten adults take out two pontoon boats further loaded with many children into the middle of Smith Mountain Lake on a sunny summer day in Virginia? Before I answer that question let me tell you this:  pontoon boats are fun.  We are looking around here to see where we might rent one [...]

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Attack of The Good Girl!

June 8, 2010

My site was taken over by hackers.  It’s a brutal experience, like an assault.  Except my assault fell over a few days when so much was happening here at home that I didn’t even notice the assault for days.  Days. Which is mortifying in and of itself. I’m a professional.  And yet, I’m not.  I [...]

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Apocryphal Fortune

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We all love a good fortune cookie.  That yummy almond crunch is the perfect end to Chinese take-out.  And the fortunes themselves are fun when read one by one around the room, sometimes leading to sage nodding all around and other times ending in hilarity. Last Sunday night, after a nine hour drive back from [...]

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Missing LOST Already

May 25, 2010
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For every question I answer, there will only be more questions.  This quote, from arguably one of the best episodes of LOST ever, Across the Sea, accurately sums up the show overall. The whole idea with a book or a movie or a narrative of any kind with a storyteller is simple.  You, the reader [...]

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Things I Missed The First Time

May 24, 2010
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I read the news and watch the news.  I get Entertainment Weekly.  I know my TV programs.  I know two months in advance which movies I’m going to see over the summer and I have a good idea which ones I’m going to regret having spent my time and money on.  I love my books.  [...]

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The Sunscreen

May 19, 2010

Anyone else remember this little gem?  I love it and the beginning of the summer along with some recent troubles all around are good enough reasons to post it anew.  There are truths and there are REAL truths and many of each follow.  Please enjoy. Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip [...]

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My Sister, Beth Kerns

May 13, 2010

Some of my frequent readers will have noticed that it’s been awhile since I’ve posted a new blog.  I like to have at least one new post a week and I’ve been slack.  It’s an odd time of the year for me.  It’s closing in on my sister’s birthday, her thirtieth. On my own thirtieth [...]

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