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Daniela is Heading Off!

Today should be the day I post my “what did I watch and read last week” post. But in a rare occurrence, I actually didn’t finish a single book, movie, or even a TV episode. My week was just totally swept away by other things. What other things? Well, I had a fair bit of […]

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A Trip Down to Boston

I headed down to Boston with the family for a few days for an extended weekend, and I wanted to report back here on some of the things we did that I can recommend to others. First off, I have to highlight a bakery we visited in Kittery, ME, just a few minutes off the

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Off to Maine Fiddle Camp

For the last seven years or so, our older kids have generally gone to the Maine Fiddle Camp in the summer. (It shut down during COVID, and I think Daniela missed it one year as well.) It’s a week of a whole ton of music, off by a lake in the middle of Maine. There’s

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Daniela is a Graduate!

Yesterday we trekked over to the high school for Daniela’s graduation ceremony. It was a rainy morning, so it was held inside the gymnasium instead of out on the football field, but it went really smoothly in spite of the weather not wanting to play along. I’m on the record books as not being a

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Proud Parent Moments

I’ve got two great examples of being a proud parent for you today, one for each of my daughters. The first is for Michaela, who was named Student of the Month for May. I went to the ceremony yesterday, and they had glowing remarks about her. (They have the parents attend, but we’re supposed to

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