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The Air Up There

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

How to Act Like an Elitist
Although I do like to rant, I try not to “talk politics” around this space. This has to do with my fear of “alienating” people. Let’s face it, not that many people read this blog! I can’t take any chances!
But I am fired up! Read on!
Sam Harris, in Newsweek, defended [...]

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The Greatest Circus Showman on Earth

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

P.T. Barnum creates the “Original Family Entertainment”
With the Circus blogtour at MomCentral.com underway, I wanted to make sure I took time to visit the P.T. Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, CT. Ringling Bros. circuses are touring the nation right now, and in just a few weeks, the Ringling show “Bellobration” will be coming home to Bridgeport, [...]

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Shona’s Run

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Super news from my fleet-of-foot Phillips relatives, Greg and niece, Shona, in Kingston …
“This morning, after exactly three months of training, Shona ran the Thousand Islands Parkway Half Marathon (21.1 km). I ran beside her as coach and moral support while Karen played chauffeur, cheering section, and chief photographer.
“The weather was reasonably good: overcast, 19°C, [...]

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British Columbia Tour, Part two

Thursday, August 21, 2008

I forgot to post the rest of our photos from our trip to Canada, so if anyone is interested, here they are.

After we left Jasper, we took the Skeena train (two days) through Prince George and stayed overnight there, (Hi uncle Lloyd and Aunt Jackie!) then on to Prince Rupert.
There we picked up the B.C. [...]

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The Company of Songbirds

Friday, August 15, 2008

Something in the new birdseed has songbirds clamoring at the brass cage around my feeder.
Wild songbirds– sparrows, chickadees, blackbirds, nuthatches, purple finches, tufted titmice, cardinals– they have come to visit me at my back window.
When my family was here these past weeks, it made me tired. Feet on the floors above, the water running always, [...]

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Roadtrip, Alberta and British Columbia, 2008

Monday, July 28, 2008

Colin and I travel a lot, but usually in fits and starts. The last long, proper holiday we took was to Egypt.
This time around Colin took me, along with my parents, on a tour of western Alberta and British Columbia, his homeland.
Below is a slideshow of the images of the first half of the trip. [...]

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The Madness of Queen Betty

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Since Colin and I returned from London, we are able to indulge in having animals again. Our first feline acquisition is BETTY (seen here), who is completely bonkers.
Betty is a rescue kitty, who was feral for the first 10 weeks of her life. But that doesn’t explain her madness. Nothing could explain her penchant (obsession, [...]

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The Bluest Water

Friday, May 30, 2008

Colin and I like to travel a lot. When we were overseas, you could find us in a foreign country on any given weekend.

Our latest adventure, to the Dominican Republic, was thanks to my brother-in-law Jay and my sister Mary. This was their trip, and they asked us to come along.
Mary and I have traveled [...]

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In a Crowded Room

Friday, January 11, 2008

Time holds only the shape you give it.
This week, it was pressed thin, squashed against the wall, hot and heavy. It was pressing, but lovely all the same.
I am not sure, exactly what I am supposed to do with the time I am given. I only know what when I am busy, the time feels [...]

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Sailor’s Delight…

Friday, July 6, 2007

Remember summer?
Summer for me is this:
Kick the Can in the dusk around “the warehouse”… an old house abandoned house across the street with a grassy lot in front and gravelled alley out back.
“Everybody OUTSIDE!” … the sound of my mother’s voice above everything, sending us to where we first were reluctant, but, after, were always happiest.
The [...]

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The Parental Invasion

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

My in-laws, Henry and Linda, have descended upon us in London. Henry is a proper old limey, having been born here. Still, things are somewhat different since the World War II days, so I’ve been taking them around the town. Here we flying high in the London Eye… The weather has been spot on and [...]

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Clear Plastic Bag

Friday, August 11, 2006

Lately I’ve been reminded a lot that I don’t have a child.
Mom went to Newton, Kansas to be with my sister. She said my sister needed help with her new house. I said, “I guess it’s a good excuse to see Maggie (her granddaughter), too.” “Well, there is that incentive too.”
My only girlfriend in London [...]

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The World Should Be Flat

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

I recently had my first proxy visitor to London. She came in the post.
Here name was “Flat Stacey” and she was a friend of my niece Grace.
Grace is one of many school kids involved in the Flat Stanley project. It’s an international literacy and communications project based on a kids book about a boy who [...]

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Dry Milk

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Frances laughs at me. “You love being poor!” as I reminisce again about my childhood.
Now, though, I am not poor.
I open the cupboard now and look at that little plastic tub of semi-skimmed dry milk. It’s cheerful, with it’s red cap and coffee and bread imagery. “Ideal for use in breadmakers, cooking, tea, coffee or [...]

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Three Reasons to Have Children

Monday, August 29, 2005

In July, when the Barnes family left Lawrence, Kansas to visit us in London, I discovered three really great reasons to have children.
The Barneses are our friends through Colin, my husband. Colin and Bob Barnes worked and played golf together in Kansas City. Bob and his wife, Amy, know each other because they are married [...]

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