Father’s Day

This is a belated post – I wanted to put it up on Father’s Day, but….you know how things go. It gets busy around here. I wanted to give a nod, applause, props, kudos, hurrahs to the very best father I know. My dear Bud.
When you get married, you see inklings of the father-in-waiting. [...]

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Summer Evening in New Bedford

On a summer evening in New Bedford, you can go to the top floor of the Whaling Museum and stand on the terrace. From the perch over the cobblestone streets you can look out onto this vista and see the boats in the harbor.
If you pause a while, you will feel that anything is possible. [...]

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Delight

I was walking around doing my morning cleanup routine, and I found this. My 4th child, Seraphina is turning 16 and she is an artist. Actually, she and Kiko and Rosie, the kids born in the 90’s are all artists. I will post Kiko’s works too on another day. This is the one I found [...]

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Bunker Hill

Saturday morning started out normally. Various children straggling down to breakfast. I noticed that the black cat, Phantom, hadn’t shown up for his breakfast. The children dispersed to the various floors looking for him in all his hiding spots. I started to get very worried. After calling to him for 10 minutes, we went [...]

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Hacked.

Ah yes, modern life. Someone, somewhere out there, hacked into my credit card number online and blithely went shopping. On the good side, the bank credited the lost money back while the investigation ensues. On the bad side, I had to cancel my card, and with it went all the spider legs of luxuries that [...]

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