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    Think A Little

    … on scheduling nothing

    Years ago, when JoHn and I were both still working bazillion hour weeks and juggling our careers with two, then three kids, we would schedule days... Read More

    Tags: comedy, humor, secrets to happiness, doing nothing, saying no, saying no to invitations, musings, comedic writing, everyday life

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    Cry A Little

    … on a letter to my kid as he graduates college

    Hey kid, Wow. I know you’re out there, in that sea of caps and gowns. Sitting. Waiting. Listening to people tell you how honored... Read More

    Tags: empty nest, college graduation, photography, Loyola New Orleans, #loyno16, loyno, musings

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    Laugh A Little

    … on texts that require little explanation

    Gabe is grey. I am blue (and also, apparently, green). I was going to put this here for the last bubbles only. The ones about... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, comedy, humor, college graduation, high school graduation, crazy busy, musings

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    Laugh A Little

    … on memories (appetizers and meals)

    We all have them, those iconic pics in our lives. Often not the wedding or baby or family pics taken by professional photographers at... Read More

    Tags: musings, family, old yankee man, humor, death of a parent, just ponderin'

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    Laugh A Little

    … on generational magic

    When the kids were little, I never knew what waking up on Mother’s Day morning would bring. My fave? Jelly eggs. Sam’s idea. He... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, comedy, photography, mother's day

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    Laugh A Little

    … on craze and contemplation; last leaving the nest

    My life has been reduced to piles. And boxes. And more piles. And a list (or seven). This month, Number One Son Sam will... Read More

    Tags: musings, empty nest, humor, college graduation, secrets to happiness, high school graduation, last to leave home, youngest leaving home

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a multimedia behavioral study (ish)

    I just read another one of the bazillion (or so) articles out there that point to the internet or social media or access to a keyboard,... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, comedy, humor, nastiness on-line, on-line anger, on-line hostility

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    Think A Little

    … on growing up magic

    Remember the Peter Pan song from the Disney movie version… I won’t grow up I won’t grow up I don’t want to go to... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, kids growing up, childhood magic, growing up, magic

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the importance of the straight man

    Oh that face. The one on the right. The big one? The one on the left? He just doinked the little one on the... Read More

    Tags: straight man, Wolf's mona monkey, musings, everyday life, joy, New Orleans, NoLA, Audubon Zoo

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    Think A Little

    … on a message from your sponsor

    Dear kids, I see you. Yes you. Growing up. I see you in your ‘in betweens’ – between high school and college, between college... Read More

    Tags: advice to adult kids, high school graduation, musings, everyday life, family, empty nest, college graduation

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    Laugh A Little

    … on sweet snow… and snow

      Yesterday morning, JoHn and I woke up and decided to head over to Cafe du Monde.  Our flight didn’t leave until noon, and... Read More

    Tags: Cafe du Monde, dyslexia, musings, learning disabilities, comedic writing, Loyola New Orleans, comedy, humor, photography, New Orleans, NoLA, Beignets

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    Think A Little

    … on brighter places (and people)

    I have often found that some of the ‘thats which’ and ‘those who’ have been through the worst imaginable, come out the other side… glowing just... Read More

    Tags: musings, photography, New Orleans, NoLA

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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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