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Skimming the pond

Note:  I apologize to my friends and acquaintances, who read the blog regularly, for my absence the last several days.  My laptop computer completely crashed, and fried the motherboard.  It’s still at the computer repair as I type, and I am borrowing one to write this post. As we walked…

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Signs of Spring

During this time when the world seems upside down, I look desperately for signs of hope. Signs of beauty. Signs of normality. On our walk down to North Boulder Creek the other evening, I found it. A sign that life begins anew and spring is on its way. Something faint…

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Have axe, will chop

Feeling still groggy from my 5:30 a.m. wake up, I try to focus on the road ahead.  Making the turn onto Hurricane Hill, I spot flashing blue and red lights in the middle of the road from  Nederland police vehicle.  That’s weird, an accident at 6 a.m. on a Friday?…

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Invasion of the Stink Bugs

Still feeling half asleep, I stumble into the bathroom to take a shower.  Pulling back the shower curtain, I glance into the gleaming white tub to find three large stink bugs in the bottom.  Back when we first moved into our house, this probably would have elicited a shriek or…

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