ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Nov 20, 2009, 2:39 pm
If you bring your fiancee to America on the fiancee visa, you've got to get married within 90 days of setting foot in America. So after some discussion, my foster son and his fiancee decided to ge...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Nov 10, 2009, 3:05 pm
Outside my window... the sun has set. I am thinking... about dinner. I am thankful for... the past two weeks, where the impossible has become the everyday. I am wearing... purple pants and a multi-co...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Nov 1, 2009, 11:55 am
Rebecca is reading to Ngor. Abuk is cooking. Achan is either petting the cat or watching Achol. Manyang is helping Abuk. Alan is sleeping in front of football with the cat on his lap. Me, I should go ...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Oct 29, 2009, 8:53 pm
  Some people know that ever since our foster son came to live with us, he has struggled to get his children with him. We got the twins out of the refugee camp in 2004. We've been working on...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Oct 18, 2009, 12:18 pm
Shred, file, recycle -- shred that half, recycle that half -- how much money did we lose in October '08, don't look, it's coming back. Can we just save the annual summary, is there an annu...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Oct 9, 2009, 8:59 pm
There are those who know how long this kitchen window has sat neglected, and I sure hope they don't tell. This is to report that suddenly, cicada-like, things can happen.   And this is th...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Sep 28, 2009, 2:50 pm
Outside my window it's a nice late-summer day. I am thinking when to get some rest. I am thankful for persistence. Despite what I've been hearing. See below. From the kitchen there are left...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Sep 10, 2009, 11:53 am
In the '70s I never tie-dyed anything, or made my own yogurt; that time, apparently, is now. I've done a lot of dyeing, most notably my mother-of-the-bride dress, and it's always come ou...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Sep 4, 2009, 8:26 am
I was in Fabric Corner with their 40-percent-off monthly e-mail in my pocket on the next-to-last day of the month when I turned the corner and encountered a roll of white eyelet. "Are my troubles over...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Sep 3, 2009, 12:44 pm
Keep Tillich, keep Niebuhr, especially H. Richard, who said that, unlike his brother, "I think before I write," not that Merton, maybe this Merton, something good about fasting in here, that knitting ...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Aug 31, 2009, 7:22 am
Outside my window it's cool and sunny. I am thinking about a to-do list that is suddenly serious. I am thankful for the light at the end of the tunnel. From the kitchen there's a table that...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Aug 26, 2009, 9:23 pm
Kennedy Unbound, by my friend Charlie Pierce.
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Aug 24, 2009, 12:36 pm
Outside my window it's acting like it's going to rain again. I am thinking about how to tactfully get rid of some books. They're not mine, they haven't been looked at in years, a...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Aug 21, 2009, 1:10 pm
So the washing machine was leaking, and the guy needed room to work, and anyhow the water had been running under many things, so it was time to clean at least that area. And so we meet Thomas and Aug...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Aug 19, 2009, 10:03 am
Who knew that the University of Rhode Island had a Commercial Pattern Archive? And that for a week you can log in for free? The fabulous A Dress a Day blog. As she says, "Login with the username '...
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ldssafari posted an article on ldssafari's Xanga Site - Aug 19, 2009, 7:19 am
Thinking I had baby-clothes patterns, I volunteered to make some for my church's women's group White Cross quota to go to hospitals and clinics in the DR Congo. Well, I didn't have a pat...
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