Forty-Five

IMG_0001, originally uploaded by diahn.
On November 30, 1962, this lovely woman married a tall Air Force airman and began a journey that would take them across two continents, a small island in the South Pacific, and six states.
Three children, five grandchildren and one great-grandson later they are still going strong. They’re trying retirement on for [...]

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If You Can’t Do the Time

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If You Can’t Do the Time, originally uploaded by diahn.
Hey – I told them to clean their room, but they didn’t listen.
What else can a mother do?

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If You Can’t Do the Time

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If You Can’t Do the Time, originally uploaded by diahn.
Hey – I told them to clean their room, but they didn’t listen.
What else can a mother do?

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If You Can’t Do the Time

If You Can’t Do the Time, originally uploaded by diahn.
Hey – I told them to clean their room, but they didn’t listen.
What else can a mother do?

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Ridiculous

Fall Break Trip 168, originally uploaded by diahn.
I love being ridiculous. Especially with my kids, and especially when I do something outrageous and silly that they really aren’t expecting. Let’s face it – in general, moms are the serious order-keeping parents and dads are the silly ones. That’s how it was when I was growing [...]

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The Magnificent One

Fall Break Trip 186, originally uploaded by diahn.
I have a dog named Oscar who is perhaps the best dog EVER.
Unlike Chico, he doesn’t snitch my chocolate or growl at my children. He’s funny and quirky and way too smart. I swear he speaks English, or at least understands it, and I mean in the way [...]

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Catch

Catcher, originally uploaded by diahn.
Don’t you just love to try new things? I do. I don’t always succeed (I tried knitting – I really wanted to knit – just couldn’t do it.) but I love to try. Sometimes I have to try things more than once to decide I can actually do it. I recently [...]

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In Case

IMG_0005, originally uploaded by diahn.
Just in case you thought I forgot how to draw…
On Thanksgiving afternoon – post-turkey, I sketched this sailfish that hangs on the wall at my in-law’s house. The whole family was gathered in the den watching “Miracle on 34th Street” and talking, and I sat and drew the fish. My MIL [...]

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Gazing

038, originally uploaded by diahn.
I find myself, sometimes, gazing so intensely at a problem that I can’t see the solution. It’s kind of like trying to find a faint constellation in the night sky – I look right where it is supposed to be and I can’t see it, even though I know it is [...]

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Raiders

Pirate, originally uploaded by diahn.
Yesterday we at at my in-law’s house – turkey, dressing, squash, sweet potatoes, broccoli, green beans, corn, mashed potatoes, rolls, roulage, buckeyes, brownies…
I gained 10 pounds.
Today we’ll go to my parents’ house and do it all over again. Mom had originally said she wasn’t doing anything big, but I talked to [...]

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