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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it. – George Burns. My girl walks proudly on to the stage clutching her trumpet. She beams when she sees me in the audience and does one of those little low wagging of her fingers, a wave just for me. […]

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family rules

  My little girl reaches into the Scrabble bag and pulls out a tile. She opens her hand ever-so-slowly and her face beams with alphabetty-pleasure as she immediately starts laying out her next word on the board. She puts down a H connected to an A from the word “SPADE” followed by a P,P,Y. “Happy,” […]

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Respect your elders. -Mary Schmich   1979  She sat very quiet. Some might say as quiet as a mouse, although really she was more of a chameleon. Merging with the beige couch, her little knees together, back straight, eyes looking, but absolutely no speaking.  When it was time for dinner she was beckoned to join the […]

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