Campaign for the Mundane
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Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Jack & I accompanied my dad to the gun show at Hampton coliseum. It’s been years and years since I went to a gun show with my dad – possibly since I was in college, so despite the past decade of being mostly anti-gun in mindset, this was like a terrific […]
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This morning I generated what I am sure is a very funny trouble ticket. I got in early this morning and got started and was working a while when I started to smell … something? Burning plastic? Eventually it occurred to me to crawl under my desk and sure enough, the smell was coming from […]
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I had this weird conversation with my mom this week. See, I’d been listening to some classic labor songs from the early 20th century (thanks, Smithsonian Folkways!) and I was thinking about how most of them were about work men were doing. So that made me think about my mother and my grandmother’s work, and […]
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This post is an entry in the January Living Out Loud project by my friend Genie. Her challenge was to write a public love letter, which I have been scared of until this afternoon, because to me the task was so daunting. Next time I’ll have to warn everyone so they can participate too. Dear […]
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The look on my face from 30 years ago is about the same look I have today where it regards The Holiday Season. Just one example: I don’t know what to get people! Some people say they don’t want to get things. I really just want to show people that I love them, and getting […]
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Jack and I are down in Norfolk. We’ve had a stunningly good Thanksgiving dinner. We have so much to be thankful for I could in fact write another month’s worth of posts about those things alone. It all comes down to folks, really. So my first thanks priority goes to my friends, my family, and […]
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We still don’t have a permanent professor. It’s been 3 class sessions with either no teacher or a sub, and 3 class sessions with no lecture to speak of; maybe I’d call it 4 since one of the subs was a little lost. This is pretty tough for me, feeling a little rudderless in a […]
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My dad just posted a bunch of pictures from his days in the Navy on his flickr. Look at that amazing family resemblance! There are a bunch of the ships and various international destinations, and points between. It makes me understand in some small way why my father is so nostalgic and attached about the […]
