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    Laugh A Little

    … on five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred… legos

    Yesterday, the Nearly Perfect Husband (also known in these parts as ‘Daddy’ (Marshal), ‘Fah-sah’ (Gabe), ‘But Daaaaad’ (Mac), and – depending on what he... Read More

    Tags: kids, empty nest, moving, 525, 600 minutes, legos, Rent, Seasons of Love, musings, family

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    Laugh A Little

    … on an easter challenge accepted

    Every Easter Sunday morning since First Born Mac was puny (pew-knee), there has been a rather loud and massive hunt for candy. The Easter... Read More

    Tags: comedy, kids, humor, Easter, secrets to happiness, Healthy Easter, musings, comedic writing

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    Cry A Little

    … on the last first day

    It’s quiet. No quieter than it is when you went to practice yesterday Or out to the local rib joint with your friends last... Read More

    Tags: family, kids, poem, poetry, parenting, senior year high school, everyday life

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    Think A Little

    … on ports and storms and stuff

    Lately, it’s been stormy. Grampa has been in the hospital for two weeks now, and the weeks before that were not pretty, nor very pleasant.... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, kids, humor, joy, prom

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a quiet word to music parents (shhh, don’t tell!)

    Okay. Firstly…. Breathe. It looks like little Johnny’s or Susie’s interest in the drums, or sax, or bass… Or guitar, or piano, or clarinet,... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, comedy, kids, humor, jazz, musician

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    Think A Little

    … on the cherishability of crazed days

    Yesterday I was out the door and headed for the combo farmers’ market/cheese shop/wine and craft beer shop/nut and gourmet food stand/florist and nursery... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, comedy, kids, soccer, humor

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    Think A Little

    … on u-hauls and de-nesting

    It occurs to me that champagne glasses full of bubbles (and glee… I always think that, in addition to lithium (a natural byproduct of... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, comedy, kids, humor

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the innumerable offenses of a mother

    Micro -space- Biotics. Whoa. What a smart kid I have, studying ‘Micro -space- Biotics’. Any mother would be proud. Especially when she was, like, seven.... Read More

    Tags: comedy, kids, humor, comedic writing, everyday life, family

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    Laugh A Little

    … on magic and mayhem: dingles take disney (day two, post two)

    Poor Nearly Perfect Husband. This ride may be his own ‘white whale’. He is so obsessed with avoiding it, that it just might result in... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, comedy, kids

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    Laugh A Little

    … on ‘hey, instead of goin’ to school today…’

    I’m writing this post on Tuesday night.  It’s 10:08 p.m. as I type. In exactly six hours and 7 minutes, the Nearly Perfect Husband,... Read More

    Tags: kids, comedic writing, everyday life, family, comedy

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    … on a letter to my daughter as she graduates college

    Dear Mac, I was in the pantry this morning, looking at the pinch pots that have been here and there and everywhere in our... Read More

    Tags: everyday life, kids, humor, college graduation, musings

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a dear, dear world

    Number-One-Son-Sam just ate a piece of celery. Stuffed with bacon. Because he can, because as of today he is 20. He has decided, now... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, comedy, kids, humor

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Bathtub Mary

In Somerville, Massachusetts, where I spent the first five or six years of my life (it seems to be hotly debatable in my family), people often put statues of the Virgin Mary in their front yards. And she is ‘protected’ in a lovely arch of white.. which is often … and I am not kidding… a partially buried cast iron bathtub.

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