That’s all your house is…it’s a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.” –George Carlin
I’ve been cleaning out the attic the last few days. I need to clean out the attic because it’s chock full of stuff, and I’m moving my studio to a home office, and I don’t [...]

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Yesterday was my mother’s 88th birthday. We took advantage of a lovely day to take a drive up to Person County, where we had a picnic and tasted some wine at the Rock of Ages winery. They have a couple of drinkable wines (and a few way-too-sweet wines), but mostly it’s a good excuse for [...]

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There was a crash of breaking glass from the living room. My first thought was: Oh, no! Not the blue vase. I like the blue vase. Pretty blue vase.
No, Barry was on the other side of the room, and one of the table lamps was on the floor. My thought was: Oh, well. We need [...]

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The folks at Dolly’s in Brightleaf Square were quite tolerant of our foolishness. Especially considering the fact that members of my family who shall remain nameless have been thrown out of Fortunoff’s for having way too much fun trying on hats.
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Thanksgiving was pleasant. Good food and lots of it. Worked a light day on Friday, then went to a beer tasting. Even played some poker–and I’m proud to say I was NOT the first one to lose all my chips. I went to bed early–a 3pm beer tasting doesn’t doesn’t inspire one to an energetic [...]

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A compendium of photos from the wedding, the preparations and even a few (tasteful, of course) from the honeymoon.
Thanks to Donald & Kathy Towne, Herb Wilgis, Kerry Mirabella, Judy Ballas and Bruce Goren for the photos!
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