Karen on May 14th, 2010

Though the weather has remained obstinately winterish, we are in the midst of spring and have been running around like crazy! For the past five weeks, we have gone on a family hike every Sunday, most of the time with the grandparents. It’s been just nice enough most weeks, and for most of our hikes [...]

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Karen on March 15th, 2010

How did March get equated with basketball? Does everyone in the country really follow the college sports that closely? We were at a party last year during March and someone there was genuinely appalled when I told him that I don’t pay attention to any of it and couldn’t even name the “Big Ten” teams [...]

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Karen on January 18th, 2010

So…. about that Christmas post I was going to do… hmmm… a little behind, but better late than never! Christmas has come and gone and we are well into the new year. We had a very busy break with Bruce’s family here for the first ten days. One of the highlights was that we took [...]

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Karen on September 23rd, 2009

Now that it is officially autumn, weatherwise and calendar-wise, I have decided to include some poetry from a writing group that I am taking part of with a friend of mine from Gateway. (No, I don’t have enough on my plate with teaching 2 University of Phoenix classes back to back, teaching full time, riding [...]

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