Perfect Moment Monday: One Shining Moment

May 30, 2011

Today I ran in my 4th “Ridge Run” 5K race in our neighborhood. Prior to 5 years ago, in 2006, when I trained for and ran in my first 5K race, I had never run for pleasure or exercise before. Beyond that I didn’t understand or appreciate why anyone else would choose to do so. […]

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Delicious Ambiguity

May 26, 2011

My friend Loribeth at The Road Less Traveled has this wonderful quote listed on the sidebar of her blog: I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking […]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Stuffed Meatloaf

May 23, 2011

On Friday night we had some good friends over for dinner that we hadn’t gotten to see and spend time with in awhile. Earlier in the week after we made the dinner plans I was talking with Bob about what to serve for dinner. Often when we get together with this couple, especially in the […]

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Homecoming

May 20, 2011

Cora Joy crawling around on Easter last month. A special welcome to those here for the first time and those returning for International Comment Leaving Week (ICLW), which officially begins tomorrow (Saturday, May 21)! I wrote this post during ICLW in February and it is a good place to start if you are not familiar with me or my […]

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A Play on Words

May 17, 2011

Last weekend Bob took me out to dinner and to see a play at the Steppenwolf Theatre here in Chicago. It was my Mother’s Day gift and our first date night, just the two of us, in awhile. I had wanted to see the play for some time, as my parents (who have a “subscription” to Steppenwolf, kind of like season tickets […]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Luck

May 16, 2011

Last Wednesday at the end of Sean’s Tae Kwon Do class he decided that he was ready to show one of his instructors (a.k.a.  masters) the he had learned and could do “Basic One” (a routine that includes 20 movements in a specific order) and recite the “High White Belt Student Creed” all by himself. Each time […]

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