The Leaning Cow

Shane’s on the left; Anya is on the right. When my son told me they had named Shane what they did, I immediately thought of Alan Ladd in the role of Shane. Ladd was only about 5’4″ and had to stand on a box when close to his leading ladies – or they had to [...]

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Well, I was just thinking about virtual travel, an by corollary, being a virtual tourist. So I picked a spot on the map while closing my eyes. It was Vermont and I pulled up the state map and selected an area and zoomed in until the town Bellows Falls caught my eye. So I decided [...]

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I wrote before about how my younger son and I named the bears I had begun collecting because it was so hard to believe anything as cute as they were could only be material and stuffing. This is Gopher; we are certain of this because we put their names on their butts.

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I heard or read somewhere – or maybe a little bird whispered it in my ear – that a little boy named Otto who lives in Texas has a birthday TODAY. Now, I know he has his picture on his grandma’s website, and that’s pretty special . . . but if you listen really hard, [...]

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Mother is a reader and today it is the Druids and now we are talking about them – the yule log, the use of garland, the holly and the idea that you you could do what she wanted to do as long as other people were not hurt. Did I say we were talking? Well, [...]

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