Press Pause for 70

This past week or two have been busy, but I’ve continued to post. I’ve even, as I mentioned in my Monday Miscellany, begun a long-ish bit that connects some dots from my Italian class all…

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Friday — Of Surprises and Confessions. . .

So. . . I promised to tell you about two more belated-birthday surprises I enjoyed last week. The first was a two-part gift, something I’ve hankered after for years, decades even, but somehow could never…

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Monday, Featuring What I Wore, Yummy Cake, and That List!

 The out-of-towners have left us, and although we miss them, I’m soaking in the Quiet and the Slow. . . . It won’t last long — we have a sleepover with a Six and a…

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Happy Easter! Joyeuses Pâques d’Amsterdam via Bordeaux

 Happy Easter! Joyeuses Pâques!  I was thinking ahead when I snapped photos of this window in Amsterdam just over a week ago (and in the way of travel, that seems so much more distant now…

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Nana and the Really Big Number of Candles on the Cake. . .

I don’t know about you, but I didn’t expect this stage of my life to be quite so busy.  It makes me think about how much got swept aside, tabled, pushed to the back burner…

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