Monday, February 4, 2013
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At the end of a four-day weekend, my granddaughter was bored. Dad still had work to do at his desk, but the generally cooperative child who can easily entertain herself was tired of writing and even tired of Legos. Luckily, I called as pre-arranged to read with her over the phone. We had started E.B. Wednesday, January 9, 2013 We bought our first “fake” Christmas tree in 1986. That we live in the desert had something to do with it; just as harvest pumpkins set out on doorsteps tend to sag by Halloween, cut conifers generally shed their needles within a week. I grew up in Wisconsin and the U.P., so Freadhoff is absolutely convincing in his descriptions of places, people, men in their relationships with machines, and (probably) how things go down in the machismo drug-gun world. As a grandmother living near the border, I was riveted by his  MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . . Maya reading with Auntie Ann Officially it is autumn. Is there any city in American that has not banned burning leaves for many years? We can only barely remember what a great day it was when dad decided it was time that everybody in the family get out there on MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . . My dad, a safety engineer for an industrial insurance company, had been deferred several times during World War II when finally he was drafted in May of 1945. This was, of course, just at the end of the war. Mother, my baby brother Bob, and I were MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . . Maxine and Stretch are characters in mysteries by Sue Henry. Stretch is a dog, Maxine the accidental sleuth. Here’s a bit of wisdom I found in her novel THE TOOTH OF TIME: “Somehow I think most people may assume that senior citizens are less inclined to revenge, leaving murder MOXIE COSMOS SAYS…. Has any one of us not been disappointed by a grandchild? We love them unconditionally, and expect them to save the world. When they decide not to, it is difficult to tell them how we feel. I envy those families who have enough money to pay for kids’ college and trips around the world. MOXIE COSMOS SAYS… If you want to start fishing at age 72, I recommend a guide. We took Max (16) and Emilie (11) to central Wisconsin, along with their parents, to a family reunion. The kids and I wanted to go out on the local waters and try casting for muskellunge – or something smaller, maybe |
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