I have a secret this Black History Month

I have a deep, dark secret. I don’t tell many people about this. I’m not sure how others will respond. But I’m willing to share it here in the privacy of my own blog. (This is where I would insert a smiley face or a wink,wink.) Okay, brace yourselves. Here it is:  I think I’m [...]

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What do you want to be when you grow up?

Why is it that we always ask kids what they want to be, rather than who they want to be when they grow up? I know that would be confusing as they wouldn’t quite understand the question. I imagine they would throw out answers like, “I want to be Batman.” Perhaps a rather sophisticated child [...]

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… and I thought playstation was a waste of time

Today on the way to school, the boys were watching “Hook.” When it was over I told them that when you see “Peter Pan” in a live theater, the kind with a stage and live actors, they usually cast the part of Peter Pan with a woman. “Why?” they asked.
“Well, I don’t know for sure [...]

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a poem … sort of

I’ve been thinking about choices a lot lately. Every day I am faced with a gazillion choices, most of them are benign, but lately I have come face to face with choices that seem far reaching. So I am trying something out of my comfort zone… a little poem or stream of consiousness to get [...]

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Live like a 3rd grader

Today I attended the awards ceremony at my kids’ school. At the end of each semester, they hand out academic awards along with character awards. I had the privilege of sitting in my 3rd grader’s class while, one-by-one, the kids stood up and shared the following information about themselves:
one thing they thought they did well
one [...]

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The girl with the blanket

I was driving north on College Avenue today when I saw the mother and her daughter scurrying along the sidewalk. The little girl had a blanket wrapped around her and the mother was trying to walk and keep it wrapped around her daughter. It is bitter out there today. It hurts to breathe, it’s so [...]

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Top 10 things you might find while cleaning your kids’ rooms

In preparation for selling our house, I have had friends helping me:
pack up items for storage
clean kitchen cabinets
organize closets, and
best of all, attempt to uncover what appears to be my sons’ bedrooms.
It has been quite therapeutic… and quite humbling. Here are the top 10 items that have been found during the Cleaning-the-House-house-which-contains-four-smallish-boys-and-all-their-toys-Extravaganza:
1. An entire ball [...]

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Majesty

A friend just wrote to me and apparently he is going to Telluride soon. Made me revisit some of our photos from past ski trips. If you love mountains as much as I do, you may like these pix.
Check them out at http://web.mac.com/lynnhouse
Click on the pages called Mountain Photos.

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Hiding in the hallway

Everyone in our house is asleep but me. I’m in the upstairs hall, typing against time as my laptop has little juice. I can hear loud breathing coming from our bedroom, a sign of a sound sleeper. I wish I was there. Sleeping. Soundly. But I’m heavy hearted tonight. I am beginning to think this [...]

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The picture above

Our fam is going skiing next month. One of my favorite things EVER! The picture above is from one of the highest points in the Rockies. I got off the lift and there was no one to be seen, save the lift operator, as far as the eye could see.
I love these mountains. My soul [...]

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