Month: March 2012
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Saint Pat’s Day rewind
So, four years ago J and I were in Ireland for Saint Patrick’s Day. It is a religious holiday. And then at noon, they party. It reminds me somewhat of Mardi Gras, in that all the little towns and villages and things have their own parades the weekend before the day itself, with all of…
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Floods and Fasts: Week 10 of 2012 in photos
This last week was a little strange for me. We’ve had a really high volume of rain in the last couple of weeks, especially this past week, and everything is saturated to the point of constant sogginess. Some parts of this island (not where I live, thankfully) and Kauai are under almost perpetual flash flood…
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Alrighty Then: pop culture references that… don’t.
Recently I’ve started paying attention to various ways our everyday language is strange (being in a place where people commonly don’t quite understand one another even though we can all speak “English” does that to you). Our use of expressions and idioms, for instance, must confuse some people not from the US to no end.…
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The Story About the Beetles
Well, my Christmas tree is finally in its box, in the garage where it belongs. It went there on Saturday. Yes, I know it’s March. Yes, I know Christmas was 2 1/2 months ago. And I tried, I really and truly tried to put it away. December 30th I actually started pulling down all of…
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Takin’ care of business: Week 9 of 2012 in photos
This week has been one in which I accomplished a lot and worked very hard on several projects. My photos are mostly of things related to them, with a handful of other randomness. Monday I cleaned the bedroom and started getting things together to make a deployment shadowbox and scrapbook for J. He collected some…
Joanna Volavka 