The holidays are here! Like most of us, you’re probably decorating your house so it looks pretty and festive for the season — the tree is up, candles are out and other decorations are placed carefully in every room. Maybe you’ve braved the cold to hang lights around the outside of the house, too. If […]
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There is a wonderful book called Emily of Deep Valley, by Maud Hart Lovelace. It begins close to Memorial Day, which at the time was called Decoration Day. I wish we’d go back to calling it Decoration Day, actually. I think it would help remind us how and why the day was set aside. Read […]
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Yes, that is perhaps the cheesiest blog post title ever written, but it’s true in this case, so it’s fitting for this story. Back in August, I was contacted by a woman named Maria. Maria and her dad wanted to buy a house. I asked her what she was looking for, put her in touch […]
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You might be asking, “Why did Cari put a picture of a dining room on her blog on Independence Day?” Because Ronald Reagan once said , “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” I’m sure it started that way for our forefathers. I’m sure that as they were spooning turtle soup into […]
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Wow! I just realized that I’ve had this blog for five years! Back to the point – Happy New Year! I so appreciate all of you who read my blog regularly. I hope for a wonderful 2012 for you, and yours. The Irish said it best (the Irish are really good at summing up sentiment, […]
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I love Independence Day. I like that it’s a catch-as-catch-can sort of day. We have no set plans at our house. We usually bar-be-cue. We usually huddle inside and try to calm our dog while all around us fireworks explode nearby. But if we suddenly made friends with people who had a boat and they […]
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