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Bev to Ande: 10 June 1943

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

When I think of those months we were together, it seems that every day was a day of romance and adventure too. Marriage is an adventure, and what an exciting, beautiful one.

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Tags: Bev & Ande · food · house · music

Today: By the Numbers

June 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Number of times my cat Ziggy screamed for his breakfast: 37 (which is 2,716 in Cat).

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Tags: food · health · house · self

Bev to Ande: 6 June 1943

June 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This hasn’t seemed like Sunday at all, as we’ve spent the whole day working.

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Bev to Ande: 5 June 1943

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Mrs. K. has been working for the U.S.O., but says she can’t make up her mind as to what she really wants to do. Said she has been nursing a finger “which the monkey tried to bite off.”

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Update: There are savages walking among us.

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Using “The Road Not Taken” and another poem as jumping-off points, Frost biographer Jay Parini hopes to show the vandals the error of their ways — and the redemptive power of poetry.

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Tags: books · house · language

Bev to Ande: 24 May 1943

May 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Had another young boy ask about buying our Ford today.

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Treasures from the piles on my desk

May 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Today I was sidelined with the incapcitating numbies, which is what I am calling the non-specific dizzyness and lethargy that I am associating with a cold. I also can’t sit still in one place today. So I am taking the opportunity to spend the afternoon in my office, clearing out the crap.

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Tags: books · family · fiction · health · house · language · music · self

Ted to Ande: 29 March 1943

March 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Bill has bought a house, the Ringner house – you’ll recall it, over there across from the old school grounds, next to Alma Kireeng’s house. It was practically all built over in 1925, and is modernized, so he made a pretty fair buy, even though he did pay $2500 for it…

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Weeds, Part 2: Mom was right again.

March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

How to Pull Weeds

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Crestwood Christo

March 25th, 2008 · 7 Comments

That night, I experienced an extremely vivid nightmare wherein rows and rows of fruit trees marched in formation toward me, hurling rotten tangerines and dirt clods at my head while “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” roared in the background.

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Tags: family · house