tjsthings
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Standardized testing and other rumblings
Yippee, right? Gotta love no child left behind. Al is doing standardized testing this week, so we’ve been getting ready and stuff. Lil A took photos at school Monday. It’s blue week. I think I’ll send blueberries, blueberry juice or something (hubby says it’s looking bleak – he needs to hush). Read more
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The Divorce Generation Grows Up
Yesterday I read this in Newsweek. It really made me think a lot about how divorce has affected my life and changed from the time I first heard of it as a kid, until now. The funny thing is, for Al, it is something that happens. And that’s okay. As long as it doesn’t happen… Read more
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Meeting David Wilson
Friday evening, I saw MSNBC premier a documentary called, “Meeting David Wilson”. It was the story of a young African American man named David A. Wilson who had decided to trace his Southern roots back to slavery. He found that he was three generations removed from slavery. He also found that there was a descendant… Read more
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The end of ten buck a pound fresh salmon.
One thing I have always loved about living in the Pacific Northwest has been the extremely fresh and reasonably priced wild Salmon that was available. Well, that’s not going to happen this year. Salmon season has been called off from Oregon to Mexico due to a very very small salmon run. Northern salmon fishing is… Read more
