Oct 07 2024
How fortunate we are to live in an area with seasons! We may ask or comment about a favorite. Seeing the beautiful turn of aspen leaves may move fall to the top of our favorite season list. We read about special area drives to see the best splay of autumn colors. Or, we may hear …
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Aug 06 2024
What if instead of “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” in 1929 sophisticated, impeccable style, we changed to something different? What would happen if that became something else? While still involving a “putting on” action, emotions, words or attitudes become that something different. The costs might vary; the response certainly will! If we put on kindness, what …
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Jul 06 2024
We all tell our stories. Then we add more stories, embellishing them for other audiences. “Is that the truth” becomes a frequently asked question. What do you do when your story material runs low? Well, take a trip and try for more stories found in different settings. We experienced this last summer when we met …
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Jun 01 2024
Recently I attended lectures from finalists for a music position in an area my father, Berton Coffin, established. His approach dealt with the teaching of singing: vocal pedagogy. He wanted to know about sound and the difference singing on various vowels would make. Upon my introduction to one of the candidates, the response was, “He …
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May 06 2024
Recently, I asked a friend about his plans. He didn’t have an immediate answer having retired the previous day from a multiple-decade career in the financial field. He and his wife chuckled at the switch of life styles. She’s now heading off to work while he’s the one at home. I think that will be …
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Mar 06 2024
I wonder how many different addresses we have had. Better yet, how many addresses will there be in our future. Being members of military families means a variety of moves both in the US and abroad. The saying was “I’m being moved” for IBM families. Most likely, we’ve moved a variety of times whether for …
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Nov 06 2023
As I look at the beauty of the November sunsets, I’m reminded of a quote I heard years ago: “November sunsets are the dividends paid by the year before closing its books.” How true that seems to me. These sunsets along with the beautiful colors found in the sunrises, should we be awake to see …
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Jul 03 2023
My husband and I have apparently begun the habit of traveling on roads which, in hindsight, we should have missed. These shouldn’t-have-taken roads, have provided the fodder for funny stories and lots of laughter…later. Our first mistakenly traveled road, occurred in Georgia when we left the Whistle Stop Café (think “Fried Green Tomatoes”). I thought …
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Jun 05 2023
By Marty Coffin Evans A pink slip arrived in my high school classroom summoning me to the Dean of Girl’s office. “Oh dear,” I thought, believing I was a good kid and not accustomed to being called to a front office, especially one involving discipline. Dean Ruth Dinsmore proceeded to introduce me to Donna, a …
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Apr 06 2023
“May we join your table,” we asked the father and young son. Allan, the father, immediately said, Yes. “Are you from Nixon or Trudeau Country?” he queried knowing we were North Americans. There, in the Queenstown, NZ TravelLodge dining room, our decades- long friendship began that July. I mentioned about wishing to go skiing too …
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Aug 06 2022
It’s a funny thing about washing dishes. There’s something about that action which is grounding, has a sense of home and reminds us of family times. In her poem, “After the Move,” my friend Carol Grever wrote about soapy hands, washing dishes and easing life’s disruption of change in her new place. After carefully placing …
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May 02 2022
In acknowledgement of Mother’s Day this month, I’m certainly reminded of mine. I’d likely say this happens on a regular, or even, daily basis. One look in the mirror and I’m reminded of a feature of hers which now bears a strong resemblance to mine. Then, there’s that inadvertent side glance, and once again, I …
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