Category Archives: just a thought

Operation Tomodachi

March 14, 2011 – 12:54 am

When people ask me where I’m from, I never know how to answer. The truth is that I grew up in Virginia and I now live in Chicago but in many ways I think of Tokyo as my hometown. I lived and worked there from the age of 21 to 29 and I am the [...]

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a quilt and a vial of sand

February 22, 2011 – 3:58 pm

Ted, the best man in our wedding, leaves today for Afghanistan for the next 12 months. He will be working for USAID, a branch of the US State Department there. My husband Bill and Ted met in college and lived and traveled the world together. They went together to live in France, Kenya and Japan. [...]

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Missing Meg

January 27, 2011 – 3:57 pm

In September of 1997 Bill and I went to pick tomatoes at our community garden plot on the South Side of Chicago. Those of you who remember the old Jim Croce song “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” will remember this area in the song being described as “the baddest part of town.” Indeed, it was a [...]

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giving the gift of hand skills

December 20, 2010 – 2:20 pm

My favorite advice columnist Amy Dickinson, of Ask Amy, is asking families to leave a book — new or used — on the bed of every child in America on Christmas Eve so that each child will have the first present they find be a book. I’m in. All four of the kids who will [...]

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the best presents

August 26, 2010 – 9:44 am

It’s my birthday! I’m 49 in calendar years but still feel like I’m 30. In my mind I’m always 30. I just don’t feel like I thought I would at 49, which I think is a great thing.That’s a gift right there. It took me way too many birthdays to realize that the best gifts [...]

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