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Sister Number 1~Sylvia

Posted in family, life, memoir on August 18, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Brian at The Cheek of God recently wrote a blog post about his sisters. It got me to thinking about mine. I haven’t written much about my sisters so I guess it’s time.
I have three sisters. The four of us are five years apart, give or take. I’m the second oldest. I also had three [...]

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Lesson Learned

Posted in life, tagged , on August 16, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Earlier this week, I volunteered to edit a friend’s novel. I love doing this and it is one thing that I am particularly good at. I was looking forward to reading it through a couple of times before beginning my editing. She emailed that it was about 150 pages. No problem.
I have difficulty reading [...]

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18

Posted in daughters, family on August 9, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Eighteen years ago today, my daughter was born!  Susie weighed in at 8 lbs., 12 oz. and measured 23 ½ inches.  She was two weeks early, delivered by c-section.
It seems like yesterday that she was holding my hand and telling me that Susu did it (Susu being the inner part of her that she blamed [...]

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Me and Charlie Gibson

Posted in life, tagged on August 7, 2008 | 9 Comments »

I really like Charlie Gibson. I’ve enjoyed watching him for many years. I think he was super on GMA and does a hell of a job on the Evening News. So imagine how I felt when I heard he was going to be at a house in my neighborhood for an all day event! I [...]

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Nothing

Posted in just musing on August 7, 2008 | 10 Comments »

I turned on a DVD the other night and as I waited for the ads to end, I noticed an ad for a DVD set of Seinfeld. I never watched that show. Well, I think I watched four times and three of those times were the same episode. For some reason, when I don’t follow [...]

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Yes, the plumbing knows

Posted in life, memoir on August 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Heathenly’s recent post reminded me of a plumbing disaster, so thanks for the post idea!
Scene: Christmas Eve, my house, a lifetime ago.  My in-laws are on their way to spend the holdiay.  I will have a house full of 15 people in a short while.  It’s about 5:30 pm.  I have been cooking tamales from [...]

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Beneath

Posted in memoir, tagged on August 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »

One of my favorite places on earth is the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Since I was a child, it held a special place in my heart. It symbolized a gateway to lands unknown [to me]. I grew up in San Jose, 45 minutes south of San Francisco. We would [...]

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