Tag: family
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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April 28, 2007 02:54 AM EDT --
The town I live in has a problem with West Nile Virus. It isn't a big problem, unless you get it, but then, look out. For ordinary people, the best hope is to die, because if somebody takes you to . . .
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May 07, 2007 07:24 PM EDT --
I hate this war.
I thought at first it was a knee-jerk reaction because I was a teenager during the worst of the Viet Nam tragedy. It's not. I hate this war.
I hate it because from the very beginning, . . .
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June 04, 2007 07:26 PM EDT --
It seems like I remember being told that if I took care of the little things, the big things would fall into place. So far, it seems to be working out.
It's a little thing to tell your husband you . . .
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July 07, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
I'm reading the paper this morning, and a help-wanted ad catches my eye. It seems that we have a new charter school in town, and they need teachers. It might be nice to have a real, steady income, . . .
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August 02, 2007 03:57 PM EDT --
The first time I traveled very far into Mexico, I did it for the sole purpose of demonstrating to my children that "poor" is in the eye of the beholder. What I discovered is that it is also largely . . .
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August 18, 2007 01:21 PM EDT --
I recently attended a family reunion, where I paid my respects to the older generation and joined them in welcoming the younger one. Our newest member is Riley John Tyler, which is a fairly euphonous name, . . .
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January 08, 2008 11:15 AM EST --
The Mother of my dear husband has come to live with us. I highly recommend such an arrangement for anyone actively seeking spiritual growth.
If that sounds like a sideways slam at my mother-in-law, . . .
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December 30, 2007 11:58 AM EST --
How can you stand her? The aunt/cousin/uncle/mother/father/drama queen relative rears his or her ugly head, and we ask that question. This is how I figure it:
Ninety-nine percent of the time, the problem . . .
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May 19, 2008 08:34 PM EDT --
In Texas today, judges began the monumental task of hearing individual custody cases for 465 children of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), who were removed . . .
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April 21, 2008 07:09 PM EDT --
Authorities in San Angelo, Texas announced that young children taken from the Yearning for Zion Ranch will be separated from their mothers after DNA testing next week. The children, whose parents are members . . .
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October 30, 2007 09:22 AM EDT --
We're thinking that my mother-in-law may be coming to live with us temporarily in the near future. I'm thinking of ways to make that work.
Having had grown children move back in, I have . . .
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July 02, 2007 10:05 PM EDT --
Heading to Mount Rushmore this summer? Make sure you budget for parking. Although admission to the monument is free, ALL parking near the national monument is sub-contracted to a private concern, and unless . . .
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August 20, 2007 10:16 AM EDT --
Being a life-long learner and lover of knowledge, it always amazes me the way people approach the opening of school. The days grow hot, the cicadas sing in the trees, ads for school clothes start turning . . .
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August 25, 2007 08:25 PM EDT --
I've notieced this thing my children do, and I wonder if other people's chldren also do it. I call it the Princess Syndrome. It happens when I perceive that my children think that certain chores, . . .
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August 31, 2007 05:31 PM EDT --
I had to reach back into the dusty archives of 30 years ago to produce a document for a legal process today, and it got me to think about do-overs. What would I have done and not have done?
I think I . . .
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June 15, 2007 01:01 PM EDT --
Everybody who has kids has had to watch them make mistakes. Some are really hard to watch, and you really hate the idea that it's going to be, well, ugly. Other times, well. . .
It was a cute hairdo. . . .
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August 19, 2007 02:00 PM EDT --
I love to travel. I want to visit every corner of the earth and experience every culture, but like so many other people, my budget is limited. Darn!
Before we departed on our last trip, we set a budget . . .
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August 24, 2007 10:39 AM EDT --
A TV commercial for cell phone carrier Boost touts the newest technology to darken the privacy horizon in years. Boost "loopt" takes the GPS capabilities of cell phones to a new, and potentially . . .
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October 27, 2007 03:02 PM EDT --
My grown daughter went out last night ot a Halloween party. We heard her come in about bedtime, but she went back out. This morning, my car was gone and I needed it, so I asked her dad to call her, because . . .
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June 21, 2007 01:09 PM EDT --
In "Murphy's Rule for Old Houses" I expounded on the ins and outs of fixing up an elderly dwelling, discussing in depth the lengths to which one must go to "keep the ship afloat" . . .
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