North Carolina

Flowers for Hurricane and Lessons Learned

August 29, 2012

I grew up in the midwest and in fear of tornados that could form quickly and in the middle of the night. We moved to North Carolina during hurricane season.

It seems like such a gift that we know when a hurricane is coming, days in advance.

Katrina made me think.

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I Don’t Know What to Name This Post

July 16, 2012

The motor home has been forever “for sale” on the back forty. I felt the need to snap some photos of it in case one of those shows like American Pickers or Antiques Road Show stops by and decides the “seventies mobile” needs to be in a museum. All the years I spent trying to keep this monster out of the background in the pictures I take while we are in Michigan and now I am snapping pictures of it to make us laugh when we are old.

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Boy Versus Racoon Versus Macy’s

July 15, 2012

This is me taking my own picture in San Francisco recently. I am smiling because behind is Union Square and I can see Macy’s from my hotel window, all half a dozen or so stories. I was happy because even if I couldn’t be shopping with the people all of the time I could stare at the people all walking around inside like a Richard Scarry Storytime book. I am not a good photographer and so…no Macy’s but I swear it is there…in all its glory!

It makes me happy and don’t judge! I am keeping the economy moving.

Dead former fluffy critters hanging above me with holes where there eyes used to be DOES NOT MAKE ME WARM AND FUZZY!

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Recovering Emotionally From River’s Carnivorous Seaweed

July 12, 2012

Our friends all learned to never go canoeing with me and if they do they better be faster than I am in a kayak.

The teenagers all learned that I won’t baby them, as I am an equal opportunity canoe flipper.

FYI, if you ever decide, (after flipping everyone’s canoes) to float the rest of the way down the river next to your kayak so as to foil anyone’s attempt to “get even”…DON’T!

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Dear Parent’s Who Do Not Think All Americans Should Have the Same Rights,

May 7, 2012

Your religion should not be dictating our laws. This is what founded this country. We believed in freedom for all. We believed to be treated equally. Why should opposite sex couples be allowed more freedoms than same-sex couples? If you don’t like it based on your religious beliefs then don’t let them get married in your church.

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A Letter to NC Supporters of the Marriage Amendment

May 6, 2012

How can you know your children are going to be straight or gay? How do you know that if one of you children announces in twenty years that they are in love with someone and want to share their life with them that you will be able to say “those words”, then, that you are plastering all over FaceBook, now? How can you look at your child and tell them that their love is less valuable than the love of two people who do not have the same “private parts?” How can you teach your children to love and to be “Godly” and to not judge and yet you are?

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