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Duck, Duck, Banjo?
Rave: Duck, Duck, Banjo?: The Engineer and I Do Pittsburgh Back in March, we were supposed to go to Mexico, maybe Costa Rica or Puerto Rico — one of those beach vacations — but before we knew it, … Continue reading
Wild Child or Mild Child?
A Rave About Heroines and Life In my family, the role of wild child was ably filled by my sister. From a young age, she not only got into fistfights with neighborhood boys, she was also the first to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure avoidance, Adventure seeking, Mild Child, Wild child
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“I Like a Girl Who Reads”
You might want to skip the ad, but this video is brilliant. Unquestionably a rave about reading (and readers).
We Can’t Save Time
A Rave Plug “how to save time” into your favorite search engine and see how many results you get. Bing came up with 133,000,000. Well, guess what? We can’t really save time. Certainly we can learn to do certain tasks … Continue reading
A Rave Keeping A-Breast
As some of you know, I now have two blogs: “Reading, Writing, Ranting and Raving” and “Keeping A-Breast: Cancer Lessons.” I don’t cross-post much between them. However, my KAB blog was recently highlighted on the Edith Sanford Breast Cancer Foundation … Continue reading
Posted in Cancer, Rave
Tagged Breast, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Edith Sanford Breast Cancer Foundation
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Labor Day
A couple of months ago, I took a pair of shoes I no longer wear to one of those big bins you sometimes find in parking lots to collect footwear and clothing for people in poorer countries. A crew of landscapers … Continue reading
My Mom
Raving About My Mother Mom — I know she’s saying, “Don’t you dare take a picture of me!” Yesterday, my mom turned 83. Once a statuesque 5’10”, she is now dwarfed by my daughter’s towering 5’7″. She’s lost 3-1/2″ to osteoporosis, … Continue reading
Creativity: Teetering on the Brink of Genius
A Rave About Creativity Last week, we went to Oshkosh for Airventure. The Engineer and I camped beneath a plane, while our daughter slept in another tent beneath a different plane and tried (with some success) to pretend we weren’t her parents. … Continue reading
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Tagged Airventure, Creativity, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Oshkosh Wisconsin
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Update “In Oshkosh. B’Gosh.” — Wherein the Metro Warbirds Get Their Name
Update “In Oshkosh. B’Gosh.”.
Things to Do in Oshkosh. B’gosh. — Besides Drink and Look at Planes, I Mean
Things to Do in Oshkosh. B’gosh..
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Tagged Airventure, Airventure 2011, Metro Warbirds, Oshkosh, Oshkosh 2011
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Reading, Writing, Ranting and Raving 