Of Hostas and Such by Molly MacDonald via @scottmacnotes
May 15

Of Hostas and Such by Molly MacDonald

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Once again, I have planted some hostas. Some meaning about a thousand. It’s not that I’m particularly crazy about hostas, it’s just that in our yard we have lots of shade trees. Shade trees and grass are enemies, thus there are lots of bare spots in our yard. Lots. Huge ones. And each spring, the […]

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Of Offspring Reactions and Such by Molly MacDonald via @scottmacnotes
May 03

Of Offspring Reactions and Such by Molly MacDonald

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  Our five offspring, in addition to being the Medicine-and-Food-Expiration-Date Police, are also the Only-Healthful-Ingredients-Allowed-in-Food-and-Drink Police.   Case in point: They roll their collective eyes at my preference for Miracle Whip on my peanut butter sandwiches. “Mom, Miracle Whip isn’t even food – it’s all chemicals!”   Then there are their reactions to my choice […]

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Apr 23

Of Peanut Butter Cups and Stuff

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Don’t you hate it when some research firm, probably with nothing better to do, determines that something you have loved for years is very bad for your health? I can just see a roomful of bored scientists sitting at a conference table and tossing around the names of various desserts, candies, whatever. And then, stroking […]

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Of Handwriting and Humiliation by Molly MacDonald via Scott MacDonald @scottmacnotes
Mar 22

Of Handwriting and Humiliation

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Rumor has reached me that cursive writing is being downplayed in our school systems. In some schools, I’m told, it has even ceased being taught. I wish that had happened a few years ago and I would have been spared a grade-school humiliation that has scarred me for life. The (Dreaded) Palmer Method We were […]

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