There it is!  The first 20 squares, in all their beauty. Send to Facebook

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The picture makes it look like I get regular fan mail.  I do not. I have gotten precisely three.  When you write for the adult market, the only people who feel compelled to comment in writing are the ones who are complaining.  There was the anonymous “fan” who send me racist comments about the fact [...]

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This morning, I was trying to get Jr out of the house for a possible Sabbath School outing.  If Sabbath School made one of us feel cranky, we would go to the library.  Regardless, there would have been a very nice outing if Jr had not waged the Battle of the Boots. These tantrums are [...]

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I’m getting all crafty…  It’s part of my creative process.  I don’t get crafty often.  I used to do it when I had exams during university.  Once I made a china doll (body, dress, hair, etc) all from scratch.   She was beautiful!  Another year I painted.  I can’t remember all my projects.  Well, I just [...]

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Abraham Heschel was a very influential Jewish thinker who wrote beautifully about the Sabbath.  I’ve always loved his description of the Sabbath as a palace in time.  The Sabbath comes every week, and it is up to us to make something beautiful of it.  We build the palace ourselves through our traditions. Well, I am [...]

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I have just endured the most humbling experience of my parenting life.  Let me put this in context.  Before I had a child, I knew it all.  I knew exactly how I would raise my little angel so that he would never, ever throw fits.  No, my little one would be well behaved, polite, sweet [...]

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This is the time of year for good intentions.  I never resolve to exercise more.  I won’t do it, so really it’s best not to set myself up for failure.  In fact, I very rarely make resolutions at all!  Most of my goals I will keep in motion anyhow, so a New Year’s Resolution seems [...]

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We are starting this year out with a bang.  We have a new member in our family–a four year old Lhasa Apso named Martin.  Heis just adorable.  My husband, who agreed to him by saying, “You’ll have to do all the work if you want him…” fell immediately in love and started volunteering to walk [...]

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