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Perfect Moment Monday: Free Fall-in’

November 27, 2011

When you get a 70 degree day on a weekend in November, it’s prudent to chuck the To Do list and play hookey from your chores. Roger and I, on a whim, loaded up the kids and pretended we were tourists in our own city. We stopped at an urban park and let Tessa and [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: The ordinary is extraordinary

October 23, 2011

It’s a lazy Saturday, and an unseasonably warm one for mid-October. I’m taking advantage of the lazy part by reading a good book and taking an afternoon snooze. The others in my family are taking advantage of the gorgeous weather by heading outside. I awake from my short nap to the sound of merriment outside [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: My StarCon experience

September 25, 2011

Now I know how Trekkies feel. Not during their “real” lives, but while at StarCon. I got to spend the weekend with one of my clans. A bunch of mostly strangers with a common experience and passion and language and pointy ears. Well, maybe not that last one, but a bunch of people who really [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday returns September 25

September 12, 2011

After a summer hiatus, Perfect Moment Monday is set to return in two weeks, September 25. With a twist. Rather than being a weekly meme, which began to feel like a chore to me (the antithesis of its purpose, which is to be mindful and present with what is), Perfect Moment Mondays will now take [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Vitamin D’asana

May 29, 2011

Views from my yoga mat this week: The floors of the gym I go to were being resurfaced so the yoga class was kicked outside. Fortunately, the weather cooperated and during a mid-morning of perfect temperatures, we saluted the sun and the earth as we honored ourselves. It was in the low 60s — [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Garden guerrillas

May 22, 2011

Our friend Michelle hit a rough patch recently. So the others in our Vino Support Group stalked her schedule and trespassed in her front yard when we knew she would be away. Then, sneakily, stealthily, we transformed her front garden from meh to marvelous. Rose and Jeannie, my cohorts in Extreme Makeover: Garden Ambush Edition [...]

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