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  There once was a little boy who was loved very, very much.  He was the first grandson in the family and celebrated by all.   Then his parents had a little girl.  He loved the little girl and took good care of her.   The little girl took up a lot of the little […]

End of February 2015.  How did that happen?  This is year is moving way too fast for my taste.  That said, I wrote this post on New Year’s Eve and just never hit publish. I wanted to share it with you now because I read this article about the beauty of imperfect photos and this […]

Traditionally, I kick off summer on Memorial Day with a summer reading list and an even bigger stack of great books. But this year, I am having so much fun during the Summer of Jenny, I didn’t start with a list or a stack. Instead, I just kept buying stacks (and stacks) and didn’t really […]

  Tomorrow is the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Normandy and the D-day invasion. While in Paris last month, the Husband and I took the train to Normandy (think of Normandy as a state and we started our day in the town of Bayeux).  We were in Bayeux to meet our tour guide to […]

Last month, the Husband and I traveled to Omaha Beach.  We toured Pointe du Hoc (which I posted about Thursday), Omaha Beach, and the American Cemetery at Normandy. I have visited Arlington National Cemetery numerous times and each time I visited, I was overcome with a sense of gratitude, pride, and sadness.  I thought visiting […]

When I was planning our recent week-long trip to Paris, I felt a little like Willy Wonka at the beginning of the factory tour: “But hurry please, we have so much time and so little to see. Wait a minute! Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you.” The list of what we did see and do […]

She walked into the Kappa Alpha house with two of her girlfriends. He said, “I will take the one on the left.”   They went to a few parties.     They fell in love and decided to get married.   They had a little boy…   and two little girls.     He served. […]