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When God Spoke To Me, On The Banzai Pipeline… (Or, A Fall Down the Rabbit Hole)
Note: If know me, or have followed this blog, then you may know that I am not a religious person, that our family is Jewish, and that I am neither Christian nor Jewish. You should also know that I am … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Awareness, Beautiful places, Beauty, Blog, Daily Observations, Honest observations on many things, Life, Musings, My world, Natural beauty, Parenting, road trip, Tales From the Motherland, travel, Writing
Tagged #WPLongform, God, Haleiwa, Hawaii, music, Oahu, Religious experience, Ron Artis, Ron Artis Family Band, Ron Artis Family Gallery, Tales From the Motherlaland, travel
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The Middle: My Son Brought Home a Bitch, and Other Tales From Collegeland
This has been a huge week in our house. An all-college, all the time, kind of week; and I’m fried! We’ve been dealing with college age kids, college dramas, returning home from college, end of college school year, college graduation: one … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Awareness, Blog, Daily Observations, Humor, Life, Mothers, Musings, My world, road trip, Wonderful Things
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The Middle… The U.N.: Squeezing Every Ounce of Magic from Disney.
Note to new readers: Our family took in two foreign exchange students this year. Denmark is a 17 yr old girl. China is a 16 yr old boy. The U.S. is our 15 yr old son (Little Man). Israel, when home, is … Continue reading
Posted in Beautiful places, Blogging, Car trips, Daily Observations, Foreign exchange students, Holidays, Humor, Mothers, Musings, My world, Parenting, road trip, Sarcasm, The U.N., travel, Writing
Tagged Disney, Disney World, Florida, Foreign exchange students, Orlando, parenting, spring break, Tales from the Motherland, The U.N., travel, travel with teens
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The Middle… In Case You Were Wondering.
In a short period of time, it seems that I’ve gotten an awful lot of questions about the blog, or my writing. Perhaps it’s because I’ve had more lunches out than usual, or certain posts strike a nerve, but the … Continue reading
Splat!
Today, I arrived home after 3 full weeks away, two of them spent soloing or free falling. I can’t say that re-entry hasbeen smooth… actually there’s not much I can say about re-entry just yet, as I’m still trying to … Continue reading
Posted in Parenting, road trip, summer vacation, Women's issues
Tagged bugs, Eastern Washington, going home, Humor, Montana, Musings, parenting, Reality, road trips, Tetons
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Ode in photos to lots of dead animals and tourism: cowboy style
Oh Jackson Hole, how we’ve enjoyed your unique style and offerings. Today, it was Little Man’s day to choose, so we let him lead the way. This meant we road the alpine slide (and mom, kicked ass; beat the boys … Continue reading
Posted in Beautiful places, Humor, Parenting, road trip, travel
Tagged car trip, fly fishing, Jackson Hole, road trips, summer vacations, taxidermy
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This tale ends with a stinky boy
WARNING: not suitable for spouses or offspring. You have been warned. It’s hard to really express what the past couple of days has been like without potentially hurting feelings. However, as I’ve said: it’s my blog. It’s not that I … Continue reading
Posted in Parenting, road trip, travel, Women's issues
Tagged parenting, road trips, summer vacation, travel
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