Written in 2004.
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It was another Christmas with my family ( Read more... )

My sister's boyfriend is a hunter. (deer, bear, moose, elk... He got a deer earlier this year. No rants about killing Bambi please.)
For Christmas I usually give him a gift certificate to Cabelas. This year I got a smaller gift certificate and I bought him a universal gun cleaning kit ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Memorial Day, I spent it in a car driving from Maryland to Massachusetts, lots of time to think. But I think what I wrote last year sums up Memorial Day for me. So I will just link to it here ( Read more... )

When I was nine, my maternal grandfather died, that day my grandmother left the house she had shared with him for 49 years and never set foot in it again. She moved in with my family. She died when I was 16. So I spent a huge chunk of my formative years in the presence of this woman ( Read more... )

It was a holiday heavy on the books, DVD's and Lego. My sister and her boyfriend found mine and G's Amazon wish lists, they must have printed them out and given them to my mother. We got books. And movies, and well, G bought me a Lego electric train set that I have been wanting for too many years ( Read more... )

This picture was taken on my Dad's 65th birthday in June. Dad is in the red shirt on the right. This picture was taken 7 months after his accident, he still hasn't regained the weight he lost being hospitalized and bedridden for nearly three months, it's really noticable in his arms ( Read more... )

I discovered something today that I didn't expect. My parents are very strongly Democrat. I thought they really didn't care much. I don't recall them ever going and actually voting when I was a kid growing up, maybe they did, but I don't remember ( Read more... )

This week was my Father's 65th birthday ( Read more... )

Finished a project for school today, planning an exhibition. It had to include a story line, timeline, gallery layout, and exhibit brief, explaining all the stuff the "team" might need to know about this exhibit. It's the first half of the larger project due at the end of the semester. I did my exhibit on the Shaker lifestyle in 19th century New ( Read more... )