Category: Random Musings
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Staying Connected
I promised Bethany I would put this photo on my blog. The remnant of last year’s Confirmation class going out to lunch after the 11am liturgy. We do this every 2nd and 4th Sunday, to a local dining establishment, to keep connected … to talk about preparations for college … to talk about family, parents, […]
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The Can o’ Green Beans Story
A friend of mine, Sharon, in Roanoke underwent surgery in 2003 to remove a tumor from her abdomen, and a chemotherapy series after surgery. When I visited with her about a year after, she was preparing to return to surgery after the discovery of yet another tumor in the same spot as the last one. […]
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Goodnight, my friend. Sweet Dreams.
Andrew Wyeth, Master Bedroom Virginia Beach VA 2003 It is with sadness that I share with you the passing of a dear friend of 12 years. Chief was an AKC registered pure-bred Yellow Labrador Retriever that I adopted in Roanoke from the St. Francis Service Dog Foundation when he was but a year old. For many […]
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Silver Anniversary
My sister Fina & husband Bob, celebrating 25 years. I was in college when my sister got married at the Base Chapel of Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Norfolk VA in 1985. Bob came into the family, a USAF Airman from Montana, from a family of two kids – one younger sister. We were […]
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There Once Was a Jolly Swag Camped by a Billabong …
The countdown has begun. I fly out of Norfolk on Saturday afternoon, out of Los Angeles later that evening, spending the 4th of July (Independence Day) somewhere above the Pacific Ocean … well, only about 6 hours of it. I touch down in Sydney by 10 am Monday after a stop in Auckland. And once […]
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Winter in the Shenandoah Valley Part 2
We had a much smaller snowstorm in January, but the second major snowstorm this season came Thursday evening, 4 February 2010. And again the landscape was shrouded in white. I had not yet shoveled the walk when I took this photograph. By the time it was over, there was under 2 feet on the ground. […]
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Winter in the Shenandoah Valley Part 1
It was the second storm of December 2009 that made us notice. 25 inches in my yard. That weekend the town was paralyzed … well, most of the east coast was as well. The lowest hinges on the church’s front doors are about a foot from the ground. But the drifts along the rest of the […]
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Wedding in the Big Easy
Jill & Jeff on the Big Day at the Roosevelt in New Orleans LA I flew down to New Orleans the day after the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. I caught a 5:30 a.m. out of Charlottesville to Charlotte, then a connecting flight to New Orleans. It was delayed only a half hour. But I […]
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Long Overdue Post
Let me tell you the story of my long awaited trip. A few months ago, my friend says, let’s take a road trip from San Francisco to Missoula. I say, you twisted my arm, say when. My friend gives me dates, I check my calendar, I purchase tickets. I’m all excited. My friend calls me […]
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