Tag Archives: Musings

This Is Your Brain on Drugs; This is My Brain on The Dining Room Table.

If you’re old enough, you remember those clever anti-drug commercials where a guy held up an egg, and said: “This is your brain.” (The idea, clearly, that your brain is a delicate thing held inside a fragile shell.) Then, showing … Continue reading

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Nursing My Broken Heart…

If you’ve read this blog long enough, you know I’m unstable. You would have predicted this post, and you can now gloat. It was inevitable. I am supposed to be shopping: enjoying a solo day in the city, time to … Continue reading

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Into The Depths

Sunday night we finally took my mother’s ashes out of my dining room cabinet, amidst the fine china and stemware she loved so much, and spread them in the waters around the San Juan Islands. This was her wish. My … Continue reading

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If You Visit My House, And I Offer You Cheez Its… Pass

This is a brief, and I mean brief, detour from the current series of blog posts on our trip to Peru. I’ve missed writing about other things, and frankly the universe has been so busy f—ing me royally, that I … Continue reading

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Machu, The Inca Dog…

This is part 4 of our Trip to Peru. If you missed the previous two post, go back now and read them… Go ahead, this will wait. When we left off, we had two hung-over “kids,” two parents who’d found … Continue reading

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The Middle… Spring, Sprang, Sprung.

This weekend, spring sprang here in the Pacific Northwest.  No doubt, it’s warmer and sunnier other places, but no one was complaining here. We don’t have a sparkling record in that (sun) department; but then it doesn’t rain nearly as … Continue reading

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The Middle… Just Shoot Me.

For years I’ve been saying to my kids: If I ever  ________, just shoot me.  They have teased me for having said it to so many things.  At one point Middle Man said to me, “There’s so many things you … Continue reading

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How Do You Like Them Apples?

A big huge thank you to JeanDayFriday, who sent me the Good Apple Award, a WordPress award, in a tag-your-it post today. Jean’s got some hilarious stories to tell, so stop over and check her out. I am honored that … Continue reading

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Understatements of the Quarter Century… Or, My Funny Valentine.

<– We are not that Valentine’s couple! This post could be called either of those two titles, because both so absolutely apply to the topic:  my twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, which is February 14, 2012.  Yep, Valentine’s wedding; and not at … Continue reading

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Tales From The Motherland has been awarded the Versatile Blogger Award!

Happy New Year and something to smile about:  My blog was awarded the Versatile Blogger Award!  I have Vivian Kirkland at Positive Parental Participation to thanks for that. Having checked out some of the other blogs that have won this, … Continue reading

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