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    Lent- Day 19: What happens to hope deferred?

      What a day. In between a trip to the bank and my weekly IVIG session, I hung out with a couple of friends discussing life, love and having babies. One friend…

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    Lent- Day 18: The sea of forgetfulness is better than the valley of the dolls.

        Over the weekend I started watching the cancelled Fox show “Dollhouse”, available for streaming on Netflix. It came highly recommended by my brother Joe, who didn’t even have to “Sherlock”…

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    Lent- Day 17- My spirit faints.

      (Source) As a kid, I just couldn’t understand the Israelites. Why, after God delivered them out of slavery in Egypt, would they so quickly turn to making a golden calf to worship…

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    Lent- Day 16: Ponderings of the heart.

     Zoe in 2013. The pout is strong in this one.      Around Zoe’s second birthday, we took her for a check-up at the pediatrician. She wass weighed, measured and given shots.…

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    Lent- Day 15: Platinum fighter jets and withered grass.

    (People)     Kanye’s missus revealed new platinum blond locks in Paris yesterday while attending Fashion Week. Kim is styled by her other half, and he seems to like her looking very…

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    Lent- Day 14: The last (and first) man on Earth.

    Will Forte as Phil Miller in Fox’s “The Last Man on Earth” (Source)     Today I watched the new Fox show “The Last Man on Earth”. It stars Will Forte as…

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    Lent- Day 12: Trashed teddies and trust.

      I snapped the picture above while out running errands this afternoon. I spotted what Zoe calls “The sad teddy bear on the ice” set out for trash. Filthy, wet and torn,…

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    Lent- Day 11: Burn after reading.

    William Powell (JP Laffont / Sygma / Corbis)     In Harper’s there’s an interesting story about William Powell, who in 1971 at age 19, “published The Anarchist Cookbook, a guide to making bombs…

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    Lent- Day 11: Burn after reading.

    William Powell (JP Laffont / Sygma / Corbis)     In Harper’s there’s an interesting story about William Powell, who in 1971 at age 19, “published The Anarchist Cookbook, a guide to making bombs…

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    Lent- Day 10: Bookends.

    Our poor little Civic. 🙁       I started the week feeling frightened by my father’s declining health. I’m ending it feeling shaken by a car accident.   This afternoon, K…