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New Year’s Eve with Nine (Kids)

Beware the four-way clink. It will get you.

As we began to serve our special New Year’s Eve dinner last night, one of the kids proposed a “four-way clink.” This is fancy talk for “Let the four of us seated raise our vintage soda bottles, join them in the middle of the table, and […]

“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.” ~ Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

For the first time, Sam made our New Year’s poster. Tommy decided he was going to pass on the no-bid contract I offered him. I like what Sam did. He made it his own, comic-style, with events he’s looking forward to in 2014. Welcome, new year.

Be good.

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As per tradition, […]

Give the Gift of Frozen Sausage

The mall in my childhood hometown is charmingly pathetic, but it’s all we had. With one story and no fountains, it wasn’t the shining public palace like most American malls in the 1980s. We didn’t know better, though. Denver and Salt Lake, with exotic things like escalators and The Gap were 5-hour drives away. We […]