Zoom, Zoom!

Something big must be getting ready to happen. There’s be an AMAZING amount of hardware flying out of the former Air Force base, now Air National Guard base, nearby. Our house happens to be in direct line of the landing path, so all that metal flies over us on its way back home.
I [...]

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Which Are You….

A “windows open, breeze in your hair” kind of person?
Or a “windows up, A/C on” kind of person?
Guess which kind I am….

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Snapshot of a Tuesday Morning

6:40 - Mommy wakes to the sound of the train passing through town. The whistle meshed oddly with a most unpleasant dream I was having about aliens and the election of a president who promised to send away the youngest child of every family.
6:57 - Mommy wakes girls and informs them of the general [...]

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Weird

My lack of techno-savvy has rendered me incapable of altering the date on a post I started the other day. If you’re interested in a native New Englander’s musings about the coming of autumn, scroll down past the love note to the hot water kettle…

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Our New Toy

We have a new electric kettle.
I’m a little surprised by how much I LOVE this thing. I mean, how hard is it to get out a glass measuring cup, fill it at the tap and pop it into the microwave for a minute, particularly when said microwave has a designated “minute” button? [...]

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How To Tell It’s Autumn in New England

You would think it would be a pretty easy thing to determine; one simply looks at the calendar to see that autumn begins on September 23rd. Here in New England, though, we’ve come to understand, after hundreds of years, that the calendar doesn’t always know what it’s talking about. No, if you want [...]

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It’s Been a GOOD Day!

WOO HOO!! Mrs. Chili has had a GOOD day today. Not just an okay day, but a GOOD one! There is much rejoicing and gatitude-offering!
Item number one - I got a job! I’m an adjunct professor of English at Tiny Community College. I was interviewed and hired in one fell [...]

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How We Remember

I’ve been thinking an awful lot about what has become known simply as “9/11″ and about what the events of that specific day - and everything that has come after - have meant to me as a citizen of the world.
I live about 300 miles from Ground Zero, in a semi-quiet little city on the [...]

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Up, Up and Away!

The space shuttle Atlantis took off safely this morning.

I wish them a safe and successful mission.

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Do Not Drive or Operate Heavy Machinery

…A post which I write to you from the edge of a drug-induced haze.
I’ve done something to my back - again. I have no idea WHEN it happened, I only know that it did because, well, I’m in pain.
I don’t mind so much when I know for sure that I did something - even [...]

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