The Leaning Cow

You start out writing a few thoughts here and there, just as you would think them while driving or doing some task. Sometimes it is because something hurts and there is no one to tell. Sometimes it is a revelation of errors made or aspirations hoped for – things maybe you are embarrassed to talk [...]

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CNN has a story about the money spent by taxpayers in relation to the children of divorce and out of wedlock situations. That is a lot of money. I could say more . . . I won’t.

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Last week, I mentioned a festival – a cornbread one – in a post about a Celtic gathering in Maryland.
I have been looking into it a little more and found The Cornbread Gospels and Crescent Dragonwagon. Now, I have a suspicion Crescent Dragonwagon is not her real name, but then again I am somewhat limited [...]

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Now that the snow pack has completely melted off and the trapped leaves beneath it been raked – to some degree – I see that the driveway is not where we assumed it was. That is, to be blunt about it, the actually cement is closer to the spruce tree and farther away from the [...]

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From: BMD Workbench
I know the thing in my kitchen is not an icebox; it is a refrigerator – I sometimes call it an icebox, though.
The summer I was born, my father delivered blocks of ice for iceboxes. He was a teacher then and I think he worked for my great uncle’s ice business. [...]

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