Month: November 2009

Holiday Leftovers

Here are two pictures that MyLissa sent me today of my newest nephew with his admiring but weird-looking aunt. I resemble Cousin Dorothea, Granddad’s ancient maiden cousin who could have been mistaken for a large frog. She was very sweet, but man, was she ugly. Poor old thing. As I remember, her lips looked like they were turned inside out, and when she approached you for an inside-out-lipped kiss, you wanted to disappear. One year […]

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Home from Turkey

My bro and his wife have a beautiful house and great kids, but I may like the Airstream even more. I already showed you pictures of it in the daytime. Here it is at night. Yesterday afternoon I went in there to take a nap, balling up under the comforter and falling asleep to the drumming of rain on tin. Now that Mom has her own laptop, there was some serious parallel computing going on […]

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Indigenous People’s Day

Yesterday I had a lovely day getting my hair dyed and cut, and eating lunch with the few people who remained on campus, and meeting for an hour-plus with Bev, one of my professors who was incredibly helpful to my confused self, and going home and doing homework. And then Dena came by and we were going to parallel study but we yacked instead, and then I did more homework and then I went to […]

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