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Booby Traps, Sparklers and Ten New Year’s Countdowns
Nothing says “welcome, make yourselves at home” like a loud explosion in your face when you need to use the bathroom. Now that we’re a good halfway into January, I feel like I’m finally ready for the...
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Over the Missouri and Across the Plains to Grandmother’s House We Go
At night, I sometimes love South Dakota. The majority of the tacky tourist signs have no lights, so they just fade away. . . .It’s nothing but empty highway surrounded by wide open prairie under a...
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The Best Gift Ever
After a 2,000 mile Thanksgiving road trip, followed by a week of post-road trip utter exhaustion, we’re in full speed Christmas mode at our house. Mounds of boots by the door: check. Christmas tree cut...
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12 Days of Christmas, Crammed into 7
Written December 2013. Merry Christmas, everyone! I’d like to wish you something about visions of sugar plums, snow flakes gently falling, silent nights, all is calm, sleigh bells jingling…blah, blah,...
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2013: A Year in Pictures (And a Few Words, Too)
This week, a picture is definitely worth a 1,000 words (to me, anyway). As you read this, the rush of Christmas is over, but as I write this, I am in still in the midst of one week to go before the big...
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