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Spaghetti

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Spaghetti

As a vegetarian household, there are a few meals that are staples we have every week or so. I know many households have a routine with their dinner menu, but while our options are not as limited as many people assume, there can be a lack of variety when it comes to ease and speed…

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Phamily Foto Phriday: Winter Camp 2019

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Phamily Foto Phriday: Winter Camp 2019

This session of this series is going to focus solely on Cub Scout Winter Camp, which Xavier and I attended last weekend. Unfortunately there was no snow, but, at least it was dry. There have been years when we have gone and it has been pouring rain the whole weekend. Sure, we were disappointed,but ultimately…

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A Few Random Spin Thoughts

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A Few Random Spin Thoughts

Yesterday morning I stepped out of the house just after 5 a.m. to head over to spin class. My neighbor across the street was getting in his car to head in to work. After the usual exchanges of “Morning!” he said, “Walking to spin?” “Yep.” “Are you happy about it?” “Nope.” We both chuckled and…

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The Perfect Online Topic

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Sometimes I struggle with time to write. Actually, quite often that is the single greatest barrier to having more blog posts. The other, is when I do have some time to write, I never necessarily know when it will be so I can not plan for it. That means I do not always have things…

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Cat Pee

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There is a couch in our basement that is ground zero for a war between our two cats. This turf war is half if not more of the reason for our philosophy on acquiring furniture for the house – we basically try not to pay for any. We used to buy furniture, nice furniture even,…

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Worry

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I used to not care. That’s not accurate. It used to be that I would not get concerned about the future. I would do what I could do, and however it worked out, it would be what it was. Perhaps it was a bit zen or Daoist. Perhaps it was more of a lackadaisical world…

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Music Monday: Boston To The Head

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Music Monday: Boston To The Head

A few people have asked me how my trip to Boston went, and that is a difficult questions to answer succinctly and in a satisfying manner in a way that doesn’t take up much time. So here I am… I think I got a concussion. This is of course a retrospective and speculative diagnosis. Retrospeculative?…

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Phamily Foto Phriday – 1/18/19

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Phamily Foto Phriday – 1/18/19

Let’s play a little catch-up, shall we? I only got a couple of pictures from Christmas, unfortunately. August was sort of obsessed with the recent Grinch animated movie, you may remember when he had those green pancakes, well he hasn’t let up since. He may have been trying to be ironic but we wanted to…

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Beatles Week 2018 day 8 – Mailman Bring Me No More Blues

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Another song by Buddy Holly, Mailman Bring Me No More Blues was the flip side of the single The Beatles would would record and release – “Words Of Love” (from Beatles For Sale). As I mentioned a few days ago, that the group didn’t record and release more Buddy Holly tunes during their early days, instead they…

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Beatles Week 2018 Day 7 – You Know What To Do

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George didn’t get to contribute much, especially in the early days of The Beatles. He sang lead vocals on every album, but most of them were covers. on the debut album he sang one cover and one original (written by John and Paul) then his first original contribution on the next album (“Don’t Bother Me”)…

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