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Bird in a Basket We’re home from tutoring, and I ask my granddaughter if she would like some strawberry crepes for an afternoon snack. “How about Bird in a Basket?” she counters. This girl knows what she wants. My husband is even better than I am at teaching the grandchildren to cook. He has them doing eggs over easy, eggs sunny side up, omelettes and even baked beans. She watches me cut the hole, butter the bread and turn on the stove. She is attentive at my elbow as I break the eggs into the holes. (She says she is not ready to do it herself.) And then, as it cooks, she loses intere...

“No,” I replied. “How about we buy another house?” So we did. It’s the house we are living in now, the house we bought, we sold, and we bought back again, and, God willing, I will never move again. It always cracks him up that I don’t want a diamond. He says it would be cheaper to buy me a big diamond. He is right, but houses are better long term investments. We had a great division of labor. AdventureMan worked hard, and his career took us to exotic locations, locations we both loved and found intellectually stimulating and challenging to our assumptions. He always chose his job...

Silver Linings It’s been a funny week. We were supposed to have a new roof put on, but the ongoing rainy weather put the roofing company behind. And when the roofing materials were delivered, there was some drama and some damage, and now we are waiting for replacement pieces and sunny weather and roofers. I went in to my Dermatologist, a young woman I adore, and she found a couple places that she wanted to hit with the liquid nitrogen “just to be sure.” She had hit one of the places, on my face, before, and nothing happened, so I wasn’t concerned. This time, I felt the impact immedia...

Exploiting Foreign Labor: Qatar and Kuwait Living in Qatar and Kuwait was a life-changing experience. We loved the stimulation of living in an environment where little was as we expected it to be. The sights, sounds and colors were stronger, attention-getting, and learning to think in different ways kept us alive and young in ways we never anticipated. There were also challenges. While as white Americans, we were high in the pecking order, we also realized we were high in a secondary category; there were the nationals, and there were all the others. We qualified, along with all the other imp...

I wish I had photos to show you, but there are moments where if you run for the camera, you miss the moment. I've had three moments in the last week that thrilled my heart. A week ago, after a big storm, as I pushed open the curtains I saw hundreds of pelicans, swooping and…