Refractions

Forty

2008-02-02T04:23:34Z

In my blog wanderings and perusals over the past three years, I've seen many lists of "Forty Things to do Before I Turn Forty." By the time I thought of composing my own, my time was seriously running out, and I was faced with either making a list...

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Vox Hunt: I Remember...

2008-01-10T03:06:41Z

Show us a photograph that makes you remember. This picture makes me remember, all right. It was taken this week, but it reminds me of the time I put my little sister in my mother's dryer. I don't think I turned it on, but I can't be sure. ...

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Mirage

2007-12-21T04:05:07Z

She has fallen into a whole new world. We came back from the NJHS induction ceremony, and she'd unexpectedly and inexplicably become more grown up, as if she'd stepped across some invisible boundary line. "How long have you known you like him li...

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QotD: I Made A Difference

2007-12-21T02:58:55Z

When did you really get to make a difference for someone else? Submitted by bodhibound. Today I took my grandmother to a doctor's appointment and then for an unexpected medical test in a town nearly an hour away. She has made an immeasurable d...

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Stretching Back Into Vox

2007-10-25T17:08:59Z

I've not posted on Refractions for a long time. Months, I believe. Probably this will happen again eventually, but for now I may pick up the pace a bit, which is to say, there may actually BE a pace again. "Why now?" you may well ask. "Because...

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QotD: Think Global, Buy Local

2007-02-10T19:20:25Z

Do you buy products made locally? Is there anything made in your area that you love? Oh, boy, is there! Grandpa Joe's Chocolates. They're made by some lovely people we've come to love who have a wonderful gift store, Rosewood Farms, just down...

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QotD: Survivor

2007-02-10T05:36:17Z

If you were stranded on a desert island, what five people would you eat first? Submitted by James Poling. 1. The one who talked incessantly. 2. The one who would not share his/her chocolate stash (but only when we were alone, and I'd bury the...

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Current Journal

2006-12-18T07:14:03Z

Randy has put out a call for pictures of the journals we use for our more personal, non-blogging type of thoughts. Below you'll find the one I begin in the morning, having just finished the one I've been using since July. This one's cover is fr...

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Creative Genius Runs Amok..Like a Turkey with Its Head Cut Off

2006-11-27T19:16:00Z

This weekend the girls made turkey cookies--happy little turkey cookies like this: I was helping and taking pictures when I noticed a strange aberation among the happy little turkey cookies. One of them had three eyes. "What is this?" I asked...

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Waiting

2006-11-21T00:01:16Z

It is hard when an editor to whom you have sent five pieces for consideration sends you back rejection emails for two of the pieces but no word concerning the others. It's probably good news, yes, since it means the other three are being kept fo...

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