Tag Archives: relationships

Weekly Photo Challenge: Hands

Posted on May 22, 2012 by
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For Rent: Prime Real Estate

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

I have always wanted a house with a big front porch.  Big enough to have a porch swing.  Big enough to fit my whole family and then some.  I remember my grandparents in Ohio having a porch like that, and … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Two Subjects

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

This past weekend we went to the Norfolk Botannical Gardens to see the azaleas, and I came across these two trees.  They fascinated me because they were nearly mirror images of each other, standing stately and tall with branches just … Continue reading →

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Life is a Series of Heart Tugs

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

“I’m so happy to have you back,” my husband said to me this morning as I placed an egg and toast in front of him. “Because now you have someone to make your breakfast and pack your lunch?” I joked. … Continue reading →

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Connecting With Your Customers

Posted on March 26, 2012 by

We used to shop at a store called Restoration Hardware.  Contrary to its name, it is not a hardware store in the customary sense of the term.  For those of you in the United States, you will remember when it … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorted

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

I took this picture from the inside of a monastery on a little island outside of Mystic, Connecticut. A Bonus of Blogging: I’ve been following Big Al’s blog and he’s been following mine. Recently, after discovering that I live in … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Didn’t Have a Lock on Love Letters

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

Perhaps the most widely quoted love letter is Elizabeth Barrett Browning‘s “How Do I Love Thee” which she wrote to her husband, Robert, but there have been many more outstanding ones that were never made public. I’m here to remedy … Continue reading →

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Will Love Conquer All?

Posted on February 8, 2012 by

Yesterday morning I read of an HBO documentary about the fight to end the ban on interracial marriage. A young couple who fell in love in Virginia in the late 1950′s could not marry because Virginia was a state that … Continue reading →

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Time Traveler

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

A few years ago I read The Time Traveler’s Wife.  Though I didn’t see the movie, the book was terrific and intriguing.  I’ve been going through family photo albums this past week for a project I’m working on, and the … Continue reading →

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“The Most Immediate Breath of Life”

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.”         … Continue reading →

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