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From the Deep End: Beaches, birthdays, and bonding
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” — Jane Howard The humidity an...
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From the Deep End: Finding your comfort zone
“Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I do...
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FROM THE DEEP END: A first time for everything
“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.” — Emily Dickinson A demon? What kind of a demon? I recently bought a pa...
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FROM THE DEEP END: Don’t bug me!
“People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amounts of limbs, and their body structure is very different. It̵...
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FROM THE DEEP END: Nostalgia isn’t 20/20
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” — Marcel Proust. I understand that as a society we have to...
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FROM THE DEEP END: 50 shades of summer
“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back porch in a cot or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a t...
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FROM THE DEEP END: Clutter, cleaning, and caring for ourselves
“Having a simplified, uncluttered home is a form of self-care.” — Emma Scheib I really do believe that clutter can prevent a person from realizing...
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FROM THE DEEP END: How far can you go?
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T. S. Eliot This past week, I had a rare chance to spend a wh...
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FROM THE DEEP END: A whale of a tale
“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.” — Albert Einstein OK,...
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FROM THE DEEP END: Seeing the light
“The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir. Consistency is something I struggle with. More than a f...