When my son returned from a deployment that was at the same time risky and monotonous he was looking for adventure. He has a ready-made group in his family so he extended an invite to join him on a white-water rafting trip. In the latter part of the summer weeks away, all of this sounded fun. In the dipping 50F temperatures of an early fall, this felt like risky business. The week before the trip…
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A true tale written long ago and rediscovered. Every morning I wake up very early and after our family of 11 spends a little time together we head off in our different directions. I head off to the kitchen to prepare my same breakfast, eaten in the same chair in the same location at our kitchen table for years. My breakfast of champions is a precise 3-minute soft-boiled egg, one piece of buttered wheat toast…
4 CommentsWatching home movies from the late 90s I could see the 5 and 7-year-old swooping over the 3-year-old and rip at the gift in his hands all for the cause of “helping” the younger sibling open his gift. And what do I hear the younger me say? “Let your brother open his own gift.” What does it mean to let another open their own gift? I am pretty aware of what it is not. It…
5 CommentsFrank Features – Little Vignettes In my father’s USNA 20th class reunion yearbook Dad wrote how his best man gave this wedding toast , “May all your troubles be little ones.” Dad’s end cap to that toast 20 years and 12 kids later was all my troubles were little ones(kids)! This toast has come to be part of our tradition at our family weddings! Faith My father kept a home office in our basement. When…
1 CommentWhen I was a little girl my father would sing nursery rhymes to us. This one always got my attention. Mary, Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow?With silver bells, and cockle shells,And pretty maids all in a row. While I loved the nursery rhyme, I hated the thought that I was contrary. Contrarian – opposing or rejecting popular opinion; going against current practice. While I hate the thought of being contrary, here’s the thing. I am.…
Leave a CommentIt’s been a while since I have made this recipe taught to me by one of my earliest mentors, Trish Zetterberg. I share this with you as something that falls the category of taking ordinary and making it extraordinary with little effort for bonus value! Video and recipe below:
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