Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2009
In researching Halloween costume ideas from the kind commenters on my earlier post, I was thinking about Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and all those wild hats and discovered (what many of you must already know) that there is really something called the Royal Ascot races! And they still hold them (since 1711). And [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 22nd, 2009
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Since I derive great pleasure from it and I don’t remember bringing it up here before, I thought I’d mention “Jeeves & Wooster.” It’s a comedic British TV series based on a set of novels written by P.G. Wodehouse back in the 1930s. As far as I know, it’s where the [...]
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Posted in Things I Like on Apr 11th, 2008
I like all the seasons, but I usually seem to like the one I’m in best until the very end of the season. Right now I like Spring.
It rains in the Spring. I like rain because it smells good. It makes everything feel clean and new. It gives variety to my life. I even like [...]
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Posted in Health, Things I Like on Apr 8th, 2008
This morning marked 10 days in a row of exercising 30 minutes or more every day. As I hopped into the shower afterward, I thought to myself that taking a shower is so much nicer when I have to do it for a reason other than having been smeared with something by one my kids. [...]
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