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Ben Franklin’s comment about the certainty of death and taxes seemed true around our household this week. Sunday morning, the 36-year-old husband of my wife’s niece died of cancer. My wife was there for the week prior to the death helping her niece tend to her husband and their four children as the inevitable approached. […] It was one of those hectic, and at times trying and irritating, weeks. But by Friday evening both college girls were home, bringing the “terrible trio” together for middle daughter’s 19th birthday this weekend. While the noise and activity level more than triples, there also seems to be a corresponding increase in everyone’s feeling of […] Now that I think I have all the initial bugs worked out, I’m pretty sure this year’s Christmas greeting (although, like other bloggers, a repeat), is coming from my new server. And although I call it my traditional one, my Christmas greeting is not traditional in the standard sense of the word. But you gotta […] While not wishing to step into the whole Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays debate, I generally refer to the “holidays” because in the course of a little over a month you’ve got Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Years — three of which are official U.S. holidays regardless of your creed or religion. Still, today is […] The last couple days convinced me it was karma that my middle daughter ended up going to college in Nebraska. For reasons detailed below, it looked liked there might a temporary blackout here in today’s on sale for Springsteen’s March 14 appearance in Omaha. Figuring a town in Nebraska wouldn’t be subject to the blackout, […] |
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