Misc Stuff
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march 9, B.I.G. and why some deaths are remembered more than others.
When I woke up this morning, the day had no special significance for me. And even after discovering why today’s a big deal for my 25-year-old and his posse from middle school, today still remains just another day. March 9 is the death anniversary of The Notorious B.I.G., the epitome of East Coast hip hop in Read more
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ponty python wants fish and chips
This is Tyler Forbes and his sister Tara. The Forbes and we were like family during our time in Nepal. Tyler used to have a wild imagination, and we would often sit together and weave his imagination into stories. Here is the first one. It needs an illustrator to turn it into a picture book. Read more
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reminiscences of rajasthan
In 2004 our family visited a few of the old palaces of Rajasthan. Sarah Egger, a family friend accompanied us. It was one of our best vacations. I am really bad at photography and even worse at organizing pictures (or anything else). But here are some pictures, picked randomly. Read more
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love expressed in boxes–hat boxes
Many years ago I learned the cost of expressing to my husband my smallest interest or my slightest fancy. A casual mention one day of wanting a cast iron trivet in my kitchen resulted in an accumulation of more than 100 cast iron trivets over three years. It happened again when I exclaimed “How cute!” Read more
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imaginary conspiracy
He hobbled into the library, arms loaded with mail, and plopped in the armchair next to the me. Between rubbing his eyes, cleaning his super thick eyeglasses, he began scrutinizing every piece of mail. Something was obviously wrong with his eyes. Him: I woke up this morning and I couldn’t see. I couldn’t read the Read more
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what is it about this picture?
WordPress sent me this summary of the 2010 traffic on my blog, particularly about one picture–“A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,200 times in 2010. That’s about 5 full 747s.” There continues to be at least one person checking this picture out every day. I don’t get Read more
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SAYS FYL 