Here’s to You, Mrs. Robinson
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The images of the helicopter departure of Michelle and Barack Obama from the White House on January 20 felt awkward, certainly theatrical,...
To Swim 70 Miles a Day . . . Every Day of Her Grandmother Life . . .
Photo via Orca Network, by Heather MacIntyre
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And still able to spring out of the water, balance for a moment on her tail before going under for the next laps in her Pacific Ocean domain...
The Covenant
How does it happen that as infants grow into their six-month stage, their eyes, large and wide, their gaze, long and leisurely, seems to beam from a far off place,...
T-REX—on My Deck
One day after a wind blown summer storm, my 7-year-old grandson, Matthew, and I collected fallen debris from trees and other rubble, piling fragments of dead branches...
Living in the Listening
April 2007, on an impulse, I stepped into the Apple store in my local mall to check out the iPods on display. Smart phones had yet to arrive on the market....
No More Popping Babies—But Still Good to Go
"yo te vigilo" provided by Raúl González via Flickr's creative common license
I sink exhausted in my chair at lunch, my 4-year-old grandson sitting across from me, and hit the play button on the VCR so that the next episode of Thomas The Tank Engine...